The New Yorker Stories - Ann Beattie [0]
Distortions
Chilly Scenes of Winter
Secrets and Surprises
Falling in Place
The Burning House
Love Always
Where You’ll Find Me
Picturing Will
What Was Mine
Another You
My Life, Starring Dara Falcon
Park City
Perfect Recall
The Doctor’s House
Follies
Walks with Men
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“Zalla,” “Second Question,” from Park City: New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie, copyright © 1998 by Irony and Pity, Inc. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
“A Vintage Thunderbird,” “Colorado,” “The Lawn Party,” “Distant Music,” “Secrets and Surprises,” “Weekend,” “Tuesday Night,” “Shifting,” from Secrets and Surprises by Ann Beattie, copyright © 1976, 1977, 1978 by Ann Beattie. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
“Home to Marie,” “Television,” “Horatio’s Trick,” from What Was Mine by Ann Beattie, copyright © 1991 by Irony and Pity, Inc. Used by permission of Random House, Inc.
“Coney Island,” “Lofty,” “Times,” “Heaven on a Summer Night,” “In the White Night,” “Janus,”
“Summer People,” “Skeletons,” and “Where You’ll Find Me,” reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from Where You’ll Find Me and Other Stories by Ann Beattie. Copyright © 1986 by Irony and Pity, Inc. All rights reserved.
“The Women of This World” reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from Perfect Recall by Ann Beattie. Copyright © 2001 by Irony and Pity, Inc. All rights reserved.
“Find and Replace,” “The Rabbit Hole as Likely Explanation,” and “That Last Odd Day in L.A.,” reprinted with the permission of Scribner, a Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., from Follies by Ann Beattie. Copyright © 2005 by Irony and Pity, Inc. All rights reserved.
The following stories appear courtesy of Ann Beattie: from Distortions (1976), “A Platonic Relationship,” “Fancy Flights,” “Wolf Dreams,” “Dwarf House,” “Snakes’ Shoes,” “Vermont,” “Downhill,” and “Wanda’s”; from The Burning House (1982), “The Cinderella Waltz,” “The Burning House,” “Waiting,” “Greenwich Time,” “Gravity,” “Running Dreams,” “Afloat,” “Girl Talk,” “Like Glass,” and “Desire”; previously uncollected, “Moving Water,” “One Day,” “Coping Stones,” and “The Confidence Decoy.”
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Contents
A Platonic Relationship ♦ April 8, 1974
Fancy Flights ♦ October 21, 1974
Wolf Dreams ♦ November 11, 1974
Dwarf House ♦ January 20, 1975
Snakes’ Shoes ♦ March 3, 1975
Vermont ♦ April 21, 1975
Downhill ♦ August 18, 1975
Wanda’s ♦ October 6, 1975
Colorado ♦ March 15, 1976
The Lawn Party ♦ July 5, 1976
Secrets and Surprises ♦ October 26, 1976
Weekend