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Ann Beattie | | Birth Date: |
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 Biography of Ann Beattie
11,051 words, approx. 37 pages
 Ann Beattie's powerful contrast in her writing of tellingly detailed descriptions and stark silence has caused her work to be placed in the contemporary canon of literary minimalism, a movement identified by critics--not by the so-called minimalists... summary from source:
Biography of Ann Beattie
7,749 words, approx. 26 pages
Ann Beattie is a novelist and short-story writer whose evocations of American life at the end of the twentieth century have earned her a wide readership and sustained critical engagement for more than two decades. Beattie's fiction explores the... 
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 Ann Beattie Information
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 Ann Beattie (born September 8, 1947) is an American short story writer and novelist. She has received an award for excellence from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a PEN/Bernard Malamud Award for excellence in the short story...
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 The Boston Globe Ann Beattie And The Tales People Tell
02/03/1990: 1,391 words, approx. 5 pages Ann Beattie is animated and funny, and she picks up on the slightest nuance in a conversation. To emphasize a point, she crosses her eyes, rapidly rearranges her facial features or flashes her long red-painted fingernails. But when the conversation turns to literature,... summary from source:
The Boston Globe The Clear-eyed Minimalism Of Ann Beattie
01/21/1990: 1,215 words, approx. 4 pages PICTURING WILL By Ann Beattie. Random House. 230 pp. $18.95. Most literary boomlets have one or two practitioners who so embody the trend that the writer's name becomes synonymous with it -- Raymond Carver with down-and-out realism, say. This pairing is a shorthand... summary from source:
 AP News Short stories honored by Updike, others
4/12/2007: 552 words, approx. 2 pagesCynthia Ozick stood before a full house of literary fans, her white hair shining as she assessed an art form that could be likened to an old, but vital patriarch _ rich, historic and, the author feared, increasingly neglected.The short story."In serious mainstream magazines nowadays,... summary from source:
AP News Today in history - Sept. 8
9/8/2007: 542 words, approx. 2 pagesToday is Saturday, Sept. 8, the 251st day of 2007. There are 114 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 8, 1900, Galveston, Texas, was struck by a hurricane that killed an estimated 8,000 people.On this date:In 1565, a Spanish expedition established the...
Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Richard Locke
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"Falling in Place" is stronger, more accomplished, larger in every way than anything [Beattie's] done…. (p. 1) Her fiction has none of the usual gimmicks and attractions that create a cult: it's not conspicuously witty or bizarre or sexy or politically defiant or eventful; in fact, it offers so colorless and cool a surface, so quiet a voice, that it's sometimes hard to imagine readers staying with it. Her subject matter, too, is deliberately banal: she chronicles th... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Pearl K. Bell
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[Ann Beattie] describes a wayward human landscape that is bereft of meaning, in which everyone is chronically vagrant and capricious, and unmoored…. [The] chaotic world of post-everything dropouts has come to seem her private literary fiefdom, populated by men and women well over thirty, educated to no purpose, living on family handouts, unattached and uncommitted. Terrified by silence, they fend it off continually with rock, dope, and the insatiable pursuit of whimsy and new kicks. They all turn up ... summary from source:
Critical Essay by Terence Winch
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In this new book of stories, Secrets and Surprises, Beattie imagines a very real world of people trapped in relationships that don't work. Resignation is everybody's modus operandi, a spiritual routine that gets them from one day to the next…. Secrets and Surprises represents a great leap forward for Beattie. This new collection recognizes that the more interesting distortions are those which blend inconspicuously into our lives so as to be almost invisible. But nonetheless powerful. (p...
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