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Ann Beattie

Autor(a) de The New Yorker stories

59+ Works 3,901 Membros 58 Críticas 15 Favorited

About the Author

Ann Beattie was born in Washington, D.C. on September 8, 1947. She received a B.A. from American University in 1969 and an M.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1970. She began her writing career when she was just twenty-five, with the short story A Platonic Relationship, published in The New mostrar mais Yorker. Regular contributions to the magazine resulted in her first collection of short stories, Distortions, published in 1976. Her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, was also published that year. Later works include Park City, Another You, Where You'll Find Me, and Walks with Men. Her work was honored with a Guggenheim fellowship in 1978, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1980, and the Rea Award for the Short Story in 2005. She has taught at Harvard College, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Virginia. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: Ann Beattie discusses "A Wonderful Stroke of Luck" with Neely Tucker at the National Book Festival, August 31, 2019. Photo by Ralph Small/Library of Congress. By Library of Congress Life - 20190831RS0285.jpg, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=82899274

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Obras por Ann Beattie

The New Yorker stories (2010) 350 exemplares
Chilly Scenes of Winter (1976) 349 exemplares
Picturing Will (1989) 320 exemplares
Love Always (1986) 294 exemplares
Falling in Place (1981) 213 exemplares
Walks with Men (2010) 191 exemplares
The Burning House (1982) 169 exemplares
The State We're In: Maine Stories (2015) 153 exemplares
Secrets and Surprises (1978) 135 exemplares
Another You (1995) 134 exemplares
What Was Mine (1986) 129 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1987 (1987) — Editor — 127 exemplares
Distortions (1976) 123 exemplares
Perfect Recall: New Stories (2001) 121 exemplares
My Life, Starring Dara Falcon (1997) 116 exemplares
The Doctor's House (2002) 112 exemplares
Follies: New Stories (2005) 93 exemplares
The Accomplished Guest: Stories (2017) 91 exemplares
Spectacles (Goblin Tales) (1985) 34 exemplares
Alex Katz (1812) 29 exemplares
Onlookers: Stories (2023) 22 exemplares
Head Over Heels [1979 film] (1979) — Screenwriter — 5 exemplares
Head Over Heels (1978) 5 exemplares
El lugar adecuado (1982) 1 exemplar
Postais de inverno 1 exemplar
La casa en llamas (2022) 1 exemplar
CASA EN LLAMAS LA 1 exemplar
Sem título 1 exemplar
Onlookers (2023) 1 exemplar
Gelide scene d'inverno (2017) 1 exemplar
Janus 1 exemplar
Weekend 1 exemplar
Solid Wood 1 exemplar
Nouvelles du New Yorker (2014) 1 exemplar
For the best 1 exemplar
Honey 1 exemplar
Vermont (2015) 1 exemplar
Sem título 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Contribuidor — 1,536 exemplares
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 1,114 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2007 (2007) — Contribuidor — 815 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2006 (2006) — Contribuidor — 542 exemplares
Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression (2001) — Contribuidor — 484 exemplares
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 470 exemplares
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Contribuidor — 454 exemplares
McSweeney's Issue 16 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern) (2005) — Contribuidor — 442 exemplares
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Contribuidor — 360 exemplares
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Contribuidor — 354 exemplares
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Contribuidor — 333 exemplares
The Penguin Book of Gay Short Stories (1994) — Contribuidor — 308 exemplares
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contribuidor — 265 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 262 exemplares
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contribuidor — 208 exemplares
The New Granta Book of the American Short Story (2007) — Contribuidor — 205 exemplares
We Are the Stories We Tell (1990) — Contribuidor — 192 exemplares
Nothing But You: Love Stories From The New Yorker (1997) — Contribuidor — 182 exemplares
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Contribuidor — 174 exemplares
Granta 94: On The Road Again (2006) — Contribuidor — 136 exemplares
The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction (2008) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women (1988) — Contribuidor — 114 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1986 (1986) — Contribuidor — 94 exemplares
Granta 118: Exit Strategies (2012) — Contribuidor — 82 exemplares
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Contribuidor — 72 exemplares
Without a Guide: Contemporary Women's Travel Adventures (1994) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Granta 133: What Have We Done (2015) — Contribuidor — 57 exemplares
Granta 152: Still Life (2020) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 1981 (1981) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
As I See It (2005) — Introdução — 22 exemplares
Wonders: Writings and Drawings for the Child in Us All (1980) — Contribuidor — 18 exemplares
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Posfácio — 13 exemplares
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Nancy Hale: On the Life & Work of a Lost American Master (2012) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Don't read this collection of dull stories expecting any insight into Maine or its residents; it was clearly written by someone "from away" and many of the stories bear no relation to the state at all except a throw-away line or reference. I assume they were added later when the author was searching for some way to tie together these meandering fragments.
 
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myshkin77 | 4 outras críticas | Aug 10, 2023 |
I am not a big fan of short stories, but when I saw this collection by Ann Beattie, I couldn’t pass it up. Onlookers is a compilation of linked stories that take place in Charlottesville, Virginia during the time of Covid and political distress when “any intelligent person has been driven half mad.” Readers may remember the white nationalist demonstration turned violent that occurred there in 2017. References to Charlottesville’s controversial statues and residents’ views permeate (but do not dominate) the stories. Rather, these are tales of a time, a place, a community, and some of the characters who inhabit it.

I loved Beattie’s wickedly clever and astute observations of life. There were many gems, but one of my favorite was that misinformation on social media has become the modern Paul Revere. It was a pleasure to read such literate pieces.

As you read the stories, try to remember the characters from each story, as relationships to them may appear in later tales.

Thanks to #netgalley and #scribner for the ARC.
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vkmarco | Jun 9, 2023 |
The stories are about boring characters. I couldn't really feel any of them. They seem to always be white people with pointless existences.
 
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burritapal | Oct 23, 2022 |
strange book. all over the place.
½
 
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mahallett | 1 outra crítica | Jun 17, 2022 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
59
Also by
46
Membros
3,901
Popularidade
#6,490
Avaliação
½ 3.6
Críticas
58
ISBN
167
Línguas
7
Marcado como favorito
15
Pedras de toque
63

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