The Accomplished Guest: stories
(eAudiobook)
A magnificent collection from award-winning author Ann Beattie-profoundly intriguing and unsettling stories that abound in delectably witty and furious inner monologues, barbed dialogue, ludicrous predicaments, many faceted heartaches, and abrupt upswellings of affection, even love...always on point, funny, and poignant. Ann Beattie's "seamless combination of biting wit and mordant humor, precise irony, and consummate cool" is on full display in this astutely observed collection set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, that explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging. In The Accomplished Guest, people pay visits or receive visitors, travel to see old friends, and experience the joys and tolls of hosting company (and of being hosted). In some stories, as in life, what begins as a benign social event becomes a situation played for high stakes. Ann Beattie slips into a short story as flawlessly as Audrey Hepburn wore a Givenchy gown, and the pieces in The Accomplished Guest-featuring recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Story selections-are marked by an undercurrent of loss and an unexpected element of violence, with Beattie's signature mordant humor woven throughout. Some guests provide welcome diversions, others are uninvited interruptions, and all are indelibly drawn. Beattie punctures her characters' pretensions and jadedness with an economy and effortless dialogue that writers have been trying to emulate for three decades. The Accomplished Guest is fresh, funny, and overwhelmingly brilliant at furnishing the precise level of niggling complexity that is tragicomically real.
Notes
Beattie, A., Zackman, G., & Roy, J. (2017). The Accomplished Guest: stories. Unabridged. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Beattie, Ann, Gabra, Zackman and Jacques, Roy. 2017. The Accomplished Guest: Stories. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Beattie, Ann, Gabra, Zackman and Jacques, Roy, The Accomplished Guest: Stories. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.
MLA Citation (style guide)Beattie, Ann,, et al. The Accomplished Guest: Stories. Unabridged. [United States], Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.
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