Distortions - Softcover

Beattie, Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446311103 ISBN 13: 9780446311106

Publisher: Not Avail, 1983

Synopsis

DISTORTIONS is a collection of 19 short stories, many of which previously appeared in print, mostly in The New Yorker. The author's list of characters is diverse: a lifeguard who wants to "introspect," a suburban couple and a spaceman, a wife who stops talking to her husband but gets up in the middle of the night to mail letters to him.

These people, so different on the surface, all lead lives distorted by dreams, devoid of passion, imagination and vitality.

Ann Beattie's style--clipped, cool and concise--gives us cameo portraits of her characters, freezing them in time and space, accentuating the emptiness of their lives.

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"Magnificant, a pleasure, a significant literary debut." --The New York Times

"Life as it is lived...One doesn't know whether to cheer or weep, but one goes on reading." --Detroit Free Press

"[Beattie is] a writer's writer." --Boston Evening Globe

"Ann Beattie is both painful and funny. She is a writer for all audiences, combining a remarkable array of skills with mateial of wide popular appeal. Her characters inhabit our contemporary world and brood like us about their loves, families, and lives. They compose a wide-screen panorama of life in these United States." --The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Not Avail
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0446311103
• ISBN 13: 9780446311106
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback