Description: This collection of 11 new stories, more ambitious and complex than ever, are set in Maine and in Key West, Florida, the stories center on people confronting altered circumstances. They are struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own expectations.
Brief description: Ann Beattie has been included in five O. Henry Award Collections, in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. The former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, she is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine, Virginia, and Florida.
Review Quotes: The Washington Post Book World One of our era's most vital masters of the short form.