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Distortions
By
Ann Beattie
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication date
September 1, 1976
Pages
283
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780385116596
ISBN-10
0385116594
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Out of Print
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$7.95
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: DISTORTIONS is a collection of 19 short stories, many of which previously appeared in print, mostly in The New Yorker. The author's list of characters is diverse: a lifeguard who wants to "introspect," a suburban couple and a spaceman, a wife who stops talking to her husband but gets up in the middle of the night to mail letters to him.
These people, so different on the surface, all lead lives distorted by dreams, devoid of passion, imagination and vitality.
Ann Beattie's style--clipped, cool and concise--gives us cameo portraits of her characters, freezing them in time and space, accentuating the emptiness of their lives.
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Hardcover
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from Doubleday (September 1, 1976)
9780385116596 | details & prices | 283 pages | List price $7.95
About: DISTORTIONS is a collection of 19 short stories, many of which previously appeared in print, mostly in The New Yorker.
About: DISTORTIONS is a collection of 19 short stories, many of which previously appeared in print, mostly in The New Yorker.
Paperback
Reissue edition from Vintage Books (January 1, 1991)
9780679732358 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $19.00
About: Nineteen stories, ranging in mood from contentment to dismal sadness, survey the strange and various forms of happiness and depression and ways of making and dealing with life's choices
About: Nineteen stories, ranging in mood from contentment to dismal sadness, survey the strange and various forms of happiness and depression and ways of making and dealing with life's choices
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