This volume brings together book reviews, criticism, interviews, biographical materials, and bibliography spanning the entire corpus of Beattie’s fiction to date—five short-story collections and four novels published through 1991.

A collection of the author’s most recent stories features unnervingly sophisticated young people and older folks striving for wisdom and grace.

Nineteen stories, ranging in mood from contentment to dismal sadness, survey the strange and various forms of happiness and depression and ways of making and dealing with life’s choices.

Set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, this collection of stories explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging –

A Study Guide for Ann Beattie’s Imagined Scenes, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

For the first time, the complete stories of an American Chekhov, a master chronicler of tradition and transformation in the twentieth-century South

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Presents essays by leading short-story writers on their favorite American short stories and why they like them. It will send readers to the library or bookstore to read - or…