Dazzlingly original, Ann Beattie’s Mrs. Nixon is a riveting exploration of an elusive American icon and of the fiction writer’s art. Pat Nixon remains one of our most mysterious and intriguing public figures, the only modern First Lady who never wrote a memoir. Beattie, like many of her generation, dismissed Richard Nixon’s wife: “interchangeable with a Martian,” she said. Decades later, she wonders what it must have been like to be married to such a spectacularly ambitious and catastrophically self-destructive man. Drawing on a wealth of sources from Life magazine to accounts by Nixon’s daughter and his doctor to The Haldeman Diaries and Jonathan Schell’s The Time of Illusion, Beattie reconstructs dozens of scenes in an attempt to see the world from Mrs. Nixon’s point of view. Like Stephen King’s On Writing, this fascinating and intimate account offers readers a rare glimpse into the imagination of a writer. Beattie, whose fiction Vanity Fair calls “irony-laced reports from the front line of the baby boomers’ war with themselves,” packs insight and humor into her examination of the First Couple with whom boomers came of age. Mrs. Nixon is a startlingly compelling and revelatory work.

Ann Beattie arrived in New York young, observant and celebrated (as The New Yorker’s young fiction star) in one of the most compelling and creative eras of recent times. So does the protagonist of her intense new novella, Walks with Men. It is 1980 in New York City, and Jane, a valedictorian fresh out of Harvard, strikes a deal with Neil, an intoxicating writer twenty years her senior. The two quickly become lovers, living together in a Chelsea brownstone, and Neil reveals the rules for a life well lived: If you take food home from a restaurant, don’t say it’s because you want leftovers for "the dog." Say that you want the bones for "a friend who does autopsies." If you can’t stand on your head (which is best), learn to do cartwheels. Have sex in airplane bathrooms. Wear only raincoats made in England. Neil’s certainties, Jane discovers, mask his deceptions. Her true education begins. "One of our era’s most vital masters of the short form" (The Washington Post), Beattie brilliantly captures a time, a place and a style of engagement. Her voice is original and iconic.

Fifteen stories deal with difficult relationships, an important phone call, single parents, an unmarried couple, and mothers and daughters

A retrospective of the fifty-year career of the acclaimed LIFE magazine photographer offers more than 120 unforgettable images of celebrities, movie stars, writers, politicians, artists, and others, including his studies of Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

A novella-and-story-collection volume by the author of Doctor's House features the themes of adult children, aging parents, and life-changing chance encounters, presenting in the title work the catastrophic consequences of a man's car accident with an elderly woman. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Reveals the story of Nina, a reclusive copyeditor who has become obsessed with her brother Andrew's sexual exploits and indiscretions, through the differing viewpoints of Nina, Andrew, and their mother.

A powerful and unsettling novel follows three unforgettable characters--Nina, a reclusive copyeditor, who, since her husband's death, has been obsessed with her brother Andrew's sexual exploits and indiscretions; Beattie, their mother, who spins her own tale of her children; and Andrew, who shares his own perspective on life--as they attempt to decipher, justify, and simply survive their lives. 30,000 first printing.

Presents a new collection of short stories involving characters who are coming to terms with the legacies of long-believed family myths, describing how they confront new circumstances such as weakness or sudden success. (view table of contents)

A collection of short fiction reflects on coping with life's inevitable sadness

Evocative essays by Ann Beattie, Richard Ford, Richard Russo, and Elizabeth Strout complement 120 full-color photographs by an acclaimed landscape photographer in an intimate celebration of Maine through four seasons of the year. 25,000 first printing.

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Thirty-six short stories--including eight never before published in book form, as well as classics from earlier collections--appear in an anthology that features 'Snakes' Shoes,' 'The Burning House,' 'Heaven on a Summer Night,' and others. Reprint. 20,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.

Product Description: Guided visualizations & relaxation techniques designed to enhance mind/body healing for the person with cancer.

Jean Warner, a young woman married into a large New England family, has her life thrown into turmoil when she becomes friends with Dara Falcon, a new arrival in town and a fascinating, seductive woman who is also a manipulative, pathological liar. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. NYT.

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