Walks with Men: Fiction

Walks with Men: Fiction - Paperback

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Walks with Men: Fiction - Paperback

Walks with Men: Fiction - Paperback

by Ann Beattie
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by Ann Beattie (Author)

From bestselling author Ann Beattie comes an intense, knockout novella that perfectly captures a time and a place--New York in the '80s.

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.

Author Biography

Ann Beattie has been included in five O. Henry Award Collections, in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Short Stories of the Century. She is the recipient of the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. In 2005, she received the Rea Award for the Short Story. The former Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, she is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine, Virginia, and Florida.

Number of Pages: 112
Dimensions: 0.35 x 7.3 x 5.84 IN
Publication Date: June 08, 2010
ISBN9781439168691
Author Ann Beattie
PublisherScribner Book Company
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2010
LanguageENG- English
Pages112
Weight1.0 lb
Print SizeStandard Print

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Lincoln Perry, whose work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions in New York, Washington, D.C., and from California to Maine to Florida, is Distinguished Visiting Artist at the University of Virginia. Ann Beattie, Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, is the author of Follies: New Stories, among fifteen novels and story collections, the illustrated monograph Alex Katz, and essays on contemporary photography.

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