Park City
New and Selected Stories
Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 29, 1999
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78133-2 (0-679-78133-1)

For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of her career including eight new pieces that have... Read more >

My Life, Starring Dara Falcon

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 9, 1998
Price: $13.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-78132-5 (0-679-78132-3)

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Another You

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 27, 1996
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73464-2 (0-679-73464-3)

To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contemplating adultery, unaware that his wife is already committing it. Read more >

Burning House

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: August 29, 1995
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-76500-4 (0-679-76500-X)

The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that promised them they’d stay young forever. And... Read more >

What Was Mine
& Other Stories
Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 252 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 16, 1992
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73903-6 (0-679-73903-3)

A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives. Read more >

Falling in Place

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73192-4 (0-679-73192-X)

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Secrets & Surprises

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 7, 1991
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73193-1 (0-679-73193-8)

These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction. Today these stories — "A Vintage Thunderbird;" "The Lawn Party, " " La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans," to name a few — seem... Read more >

Chilly Scenes of Winter

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 2, 1991
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73234-1 (0-679-73234-9)

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Distortions

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 2, 1991
Price: $19.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73235-8 (0-679-73235-7)

Haunting 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.

"Magnificant, a pleasure, a significant literary debut." --The... Read more >

Picturing Will

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: January 2, 1991
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-73194-8 (0-679-73194-6)

Picturing Will, the widely acclaimed new novel by Ann Beattie, unravels the complexities of a postmodern family. There's Will, a curious five-year-old who listens to the heartbeat of a plant through his toy stethoscope; Jody, his mother, a photographer poised on the threshold of celebrity; Mel, Jody’s perfect—perhaps too perfect—lover; and... Read more >

Love Always

Written by Ann Beattie

Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: June 12, 1986
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-394-74418-6 (0-394-74418-7)

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