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.

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.

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.

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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)

The complexities of a postmodern family unravel in the story of Will, a 5-year-old who listens to plants through a toy stethoscope; his mother Jody and her lover, Mel; and Wayne, Will's bedhopping father

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

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

Product Description: Guided visualization & relaxation techniques designed for general stress reduction and personal growth.

Product Description: When Alison puts on Great Grandmother's glasses, they become magical and enable her to understand some of her great grandmother's frustrations and unfulfilled aspirations.

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.

Product Description: A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives.

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

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