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Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike's Best American Short Stories of the Century. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story form. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. She and her husband,... show more

Ann Beattie has been included in four O. Henry Award Collections and in John Updike's Best American Short Stories of the Century. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story form. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Key West, Florida, and Charlottesville, Virginia, where she is Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
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Birth date: September 08, 1947
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Brenna M's Book Blog
Brenna M's Book Blog rated it 9 years ago
The State We're In Ann Beattie Hardcover, 224 Published August 11th 2015 by Scribner ISBN 150110781X (ISBN13: 9781501107818) also available as audio and kindle editions Some of the stories I enjoyed, like Silent Prayer. Others were good, but I wasn't so thrilled with open endings ...
Michelle
Michelle rated it 10 years ago
“A master chronicler of our life and times." —Newsday"A very funny book. . . . If Jane Austen had been crossed with Oscar Wilde and re-crossed with the early Evelyn Waugh, and the result plonked down among the semi-beautiful people of late 20th-century media-fringe America . . . the outcome might ha...
TCWriter
TCWriter rated it 11 years ago
This is a new, not-yet-released version of the too-short original (the publicist told me it was 1/3 longer than the first version, published in 1999 by Lyons Press).
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
The title is a misnomer. Not that there aren't some wonderful stories here, but they were never really chosen because they're the best American short stories of the 20th century. Rather, these are Updike's 56 picks out of the 2,000 stories originally chosen in the 84 volumes of a yearly anthology pu...
mtw1tter
mtw1tter rated it 12 years ago
Magnificent! Such deconstruction! Such insights! Unfortunately it's not performance art, much less art installation. Totally fails in whatever genre it was trying to pigeonhole itself into and in this case, the author isn't dead either.
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