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Nouvelles Du New Yorker (2010)

by Ann Beattie(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

2267024721 (ISBN13: 9782267024722)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Chistian Bourgois

review 1: I was introduced to Ann Beattie in a literature class. I was initially annoyed at the introduction because I have never felt connected to short fiction and have always preferred novels. However, I found myself feeling very passionate about the one story I read of Beattie's and bought this book to find out more. I really enjoy her unique writing style and her interesting, close to home, themes. Many, if not most, of her stories cover dysfunctional relationships with characters you generally hate. But her use of words to portray these pictures really reaches inside a person to bring out a lot of feelings. I wouldn't go as far as to say I now like short fiction - but I do like Ann Beattie.
review 2: When she's firing on all cylinders, Ann Beattie is amazing.... more At the very least, she's always an artful artist, with an unerring sense of humanity and a limitless imagination. Her early stories, however, often seemed too arbitrary for me -- she assembles all the ingredients, but then just throws them down on the canvas without much of a purpose or pattern. Events succeed other events which succeed other events, and then the story ends. Many times I couldn't see the point. Her later stories, however, seem to have much more structure and cohesion. Maybe the fault is in my concentration as a reader, but revisiting some of these stories here reminded me of my experience many years ago. less

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