Ann Beattie

State We're In (eBook, ePUB)

Maine Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The State We're In is the first new collection in a decade from the writer that John Updike credited with creating 'an entirely different kind of short story'. Cool, ironic and witty, these stories are sharply observed, but underpinned with a quiet tenderness.Told through the voices of vivid and engaging women of all ages, The State We're In explores their doubts and desires and reveals the unexpected moments and glancing epiphanies of daily life. Some of Beattie's idiosyncratic and compelling characters have arrived in the coastal state of Maine by accident, while others are trying to escape. The collection is woven around Jocelyn, a disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle for the summer, forging new friendships, avoiding her mother's calls, taking writing classes, and encountering mortality for the first time. Beattie's voice is mesmerising and her keen insight into the human heart cuts through our preconceptions and prejudices. The State We're In is a pitch-perfect meditation on the singular strangeness of life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Publications
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783782925
• Artikelnr.: 43978982

Autorenporträt

Ann Beattie is the author of nine short story collections and eight novels. She has been included in four O. Henry Award collections, in John Updike's The Best American Short Stories of the Century, and in Jennifer Egan's The Best American Short Stories 2014. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has a story in the forthcoming Pushcart Prize 40th anniversary issue. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine and Key West, Florida.