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Title: Park City: New and Selected Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ann Beattie ISBN: 0679781331 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33
Rating: 4
Summary: Kind of Blue
Comment: When I think of Miles Davis, the word virtuoso comes to mind. When I think of Ann Beattie's short stories, the music from Miles' classic album "Kind of Blue" plays in my head. Spare, taut, controlled, yet so emotionally stripped down as to be poetic in the truest sense. This is fiction that rings like a tuning fork, humming inaubibly to the fragile souls that inhabit these works. Short stories like "Vermont", "Burning House", and "Where'll You Find Me" resonate with despair and, yet, at the same time tremble with a glimmer of hope. Bawdiness and loudness of voice, a brawling style, does not prevail in these quiet tales. But then again Ms. Beattie isn't trying to be Hemingway. She in her own way moved the short story beyong Hem and Cheever and even Carver, taking it to a realm where readers and writers are innured to listen.
Rating: 4
Summary: These stories are glittering gems.
Comment: This book was my first encounter with Beattie, and I must say that I was completely taken with her prose and the ease with which she provides us glimpses into her characters' lives. As a reader who revels in the chance to read writers who are technical masters of the short story form, Beattie did not disappoint. What I did find disappointing was that the stories became repetitive in theme and style so that powerful effect of the excellent ones ("Vermont, The Burning House, "Where You'll Find Me") was ultimately diluted by some of the other weaker stories. Finally, it is nice to read a female author who is unashamed to write about the human heart without an artifial device like southern charm or supposed female wackiness, both of which can sometimes be a distraction and detraction from a story
Rating: 5
Summary: A Large Satisfying Collection
Comment: Park City is a big, hefty collection of wonderful short stories from one of our most talented writers of short fiction. Beattie writes with a detached affection for her characters and a wonderful sense of clarity. This is a collection of new stories and the greatest hits from her earlier collection. I read a lot of these stories in the 80s, but I can still remember them. The new ones are fabulous. The characters and their stories will stay with you long after you put this book down.
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Title: Chilly Scenes of Winter (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ann Beattie ISBN: 0679732349 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Where You'll Find Me: And Other Stories by Ann Beattie ISBN: 074322678X Publisher: Scribner Paperback Fiction Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Doctor's House: A Novel by Ann Beattie ISBN: 0743235010 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Perfect Recall : New Stories by Ann Beattie ISBN: B0000645XS Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Burning House: Short Stories (Vintage Contemporaries) by Ann Beattie, Robin Desser ISBN: 067976500X Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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