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Park City : new and selected stories / Ann Beattie.
LIBRA Rare PS3552.E177 P37 1999 Potok copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beattie, Ann.
- Series:
- Vintage contemporaries
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Short stories, American.
- United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- Short stories, American--20th century.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories, American.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 14 unnumbered pages, 477 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- [First Vintage Contemporaries edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books a division of Random House, Inc., [1999]
- Summary:
- Thirty-six stories--eight of which are published for the first time--represent the finest work of a writer who consistently holds up a mirror to contemporary America.
- Contents:
- Park City. Cosmos; Second Question; Going Home with Uccello; The Siamese Twins go Snorkeling; Zalla; Ed and Dave visit the City; The Four-Night Fight; Park City
- Distortions. Vermont; Wolf Dreams; Dwarf House; Snakes' Shoes
- Secrets and Surprises. Secrets and Surprises; Weekend; A Vintage Thunderbird; Shifting; The Lawn Party; Colorado
- The Burning House. Learning to Fall; The Cinderella Waltz; Jacklighting; Waiting; Desire; Greenwich Time; The Burning House
- Where You'll Find Me. Janus; In the White Night; Heaven on a Summer Night; Summer People; Skeletons; Where You'll Find Me
- What Was Mine. The Working Girl; In Amalfi; What was Mine; Windy Day at the Reservoir; Imagine a Day at the End of Your Life.
- Notes:
- "First Vintage Contemporaries Edition, July 1999."
- Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf in 1998.
- "The stories here were written over approximately a twenty-five year period ... The first eight stories, in the section, 'Park City,' have never appeared in a book before. The others are from previously published collections ...."--Author's Note.
- "Design: Megan Wilson."
- Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.
- Local Notes:
- Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.
- ISBN:
- 0679781331 :
- OCLC:
- 41714144
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