The accomplished guest : stories / Ann Beattie.
Material type:
TextPublisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2017Edition: Center Point Large Print editionDescription: 335 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781683244684
- 1683244680
- Short stories. Selections
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Large Print Book
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Large Print Fiction | Beattie, Ann | Available | 33111008531572 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Surprising and revealing, set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, Ann Beattie's 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.
Originally published: New York : Scribner, 2017.
"Set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, this collection of stories explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging"-- Provided by publisher.
The Indian uprising -- For the best -- The astonished woodchopper -- Anecdotes -- Other people's birthdays -- Company -- The debt -- Lady Neptune -- The caterer -- The gypsy chooses the whatever card -- The cloud -- Hoodie in Xanadu -- Save a horse ride a cowgirl.