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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679732357
ISBN-139780679732358
eBay Product ID (ePID)879361
Product Key Features
Book TitleDistortions
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicShort Stories (Single Author), General
Publication Year1991
GenreFiction
AuthorAnn Beattie
Book SeriesVintage Contemporaries Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN90-039020
Reviews"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, "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
Dewey Edition20
Dewey DecimalFIC
SynopsisHaunting and disturbingly powerful, these stories established Ann Beattie as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction and an absolute master of the short-story form. Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor.