The Accomplished Guest: Stories

The Accomplished Guest: Stories

A magnificent new collection from award-winning author Ann Beattieâ€”featuring recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Story selections.

Surprising and revealing, set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, Ann Beattieâ€™s astutely observed new collection explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging.

One theme of The Accomplished Guest is people paying visits or receiving visitors, traveling to see old friends, the joys and tolls of hosting company (and of being hosted). The occasion might be a wedding, a birthday, a reunion, an annual Christmas party, or another opportunity to gather and attempt to bond with biological relatives or chosen families. In some stories, as in life, what begins as a benign social event becomes a situation played for high stakes.

The stories in The Accomplished Guest are marked by an undercurrent of loss and an unexpected element of violence, with Beattieâ€™s signature mordant humor woven throughout. Some characters provide welcome diversions, others are uninvited interruptions, all are indelibly drawn by the endlessly amusing and accomplished Ann Beattie.

Beattieâ€™s debut collection Distortions was published forty years ago, but her writing is as fresh, funny, and relevant as ever. She is â€œa national treasure, the author of short stories that will endure and continue to inspireâ€ (Jay McInerney, The New York Times Book Review).
Country USA
Brand SCRIBNER
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781501111389
ReleaseDate 2017-06-13
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501111389

Country	USA
Brand	SCRIBNER
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781501111389
ReleaseDate	2017-06-13
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501111389

The Accomplished Guest: Stories

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