The accomplished guest : stories
Beattie, Ann
The accomplished guest : stories / Ann Beattie - New York : Scribner , 2017 - 270 p. ; 22 cm.
Most of the 13 stories take place in Maine, Key West or Charlottesville, locales Beattie has made familiar in previous collections. Many arise from fraught, alcohol-fueled encounters at birthdays, holidays and weddings. Such occasions (including a party to celebrate the sentencing of Bernie Madoff) are meant to be festive, but family and generational tensions, nursed over the years, can erupt in unexpected, sometimes violent, ways. Pity the title character in The Astonished Woodchopper who finds himself while eavesdropping like a dowsing rod, having located water in the crossfire of a fraternal argument at a wedding. If the world belonged to the young, one combatant tells himself, having angrily decided to strand his brothers future stepson at the airport, it was time for the kid to start coping.
English.
9781501111389
Stories ----Fiction
PS3558.E47614 / W66 2003
FIC BEA
The accomplished guest : stories / Ann Beattie - New York : Scribner , 2017 - 270 p. ; 22 cm.
Most of the 13 stories take place in Maine, Key West or Charlottesville, locales Beattie has made familiar in previous collections. Many arise from fraught, alcohol-fueled encounters at birthdays, holidays and weddings. Such occasions (including a party to celebrate the sentencing of Bernie Madoff) are meant to be festive, but family and generational tensions, nursed over the years, can erupt in unexpected, sometimes violent, ways. Pity the title character in The Astonished Woodchopper who finds himself while eavesdropping like a dowsing rod, having located water in the crossfire of a fraternal argument at a wedding. If the world belonged to the young, one combatant tells himself, having angrily decided to strand his brothers future stepson at the airport, it was time for the kid to start coping.
English.
9781501111389
Stories ----Fiction
PS3558.E47614 / W66 2003
FIC BEA
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