What Was Mine: & Other Stories - Paperback

by Ann Beattie (Author)

These shimmering and emotionally complex stories give witness to the growing depth in the writing of one of today's most consistently acclaimed fiction writers. Beattie's latest collection is filled with tales that combine painterly detail with an uncanny feel for the submerged rhythms of the heart.

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A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives.

Author Biography

Ann Beattie has published eight novels and ten collections of stories, among them Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling in Place, The Burning House, Love Always, Picturing Will, and Another You. She was the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia (emerita). 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 and Key West, Florida.