Perfect recall / Ann Beattie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beattie, Ann.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Change--Fiction.

Change.

United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

United States.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

347 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Scribner, 2002.

Summary:

Peopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own expectations, this collection of eleven new stories from Ann Beattie makes it strikingly clear why she is known as one of "American literature's most adept explorers and interpreters of the unraveling edges of life" (Miami Herald). From the elegiac story "The Famous Poet, Amid Bougainvillea," in which two men trade ruminations about the odd experience of being cared for by those you are meant to serve, to "The Big-Breasted Pilgrim," wherein a famous chef gets a series of bewildering phone calls from George Stephanopoulos, Perfect Recall comprises Beattie's most ambitious and complex work yet.

Contents:

Hurricane Carleyville

The big-breasted pilgrim

Mermaids

Cat people

The women of this world

The infamous fall of Howell the clown

See the pyramids

In irons

Coydog

Perfect recall

The famous poet, Amid Bougainvillea.

Notes:

"First Scribner Paperback Fiction edition 2002" -- T.p. verso

Includes a Scribner Paperback Fiction reading group guide.

ISBN:

0743211707

9780743211703

OCLC:

774893662