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Distortions
by Beattie, Ann
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0385116594
- ISBN 13
- 9780385116596
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1976. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. John Cheever's copy--no ownership marks but with a folded sheet of Cheever's Boston letterhead loosely inserted. . First edition, 1976. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, 283 pp., clean unmarked text, Very Good copy in Very Good dust jacket, some straining to the front inner hinge, age-toning to the outer pages and the page-edges, dust jacket with some age-toning as well, dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the edges including creasing, closed tearing, and a bit of loss at the tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector. The letterhead bears a Cheever residence in Boston, but the provenance for this volume was his personal library at his home in Ossining, NY.
Synopsis
Born in 1947, Ann Beattie grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., attended college at American University, and went on to do graduate work in English literature at the University of Connecticut. She began writing stories out of frustration with her doctoral work. After rejecting twenty-two submissions, The New Yorker published Beattie's "A Platonic Relationship" in 1974, and Beattie became a regular contributor to the magazine. Her first collection of stories, Distortions , and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter , appeared simultaneously in 1976 and initiated a long-standing critical debate as to whether Beattie's greater strength is in the story or the novel. All critics agree, however, on the uniqueness of her style and her uncanny ability to expose certain truths about contemporary life, particularly as it lived by those of her own generation and social class. She lives in Maine and Key West with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Common Crow Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- s00017338
- Title
- Distortions
- Author
- Beattie, Ann
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385116594
- ISBN 13
- 9780385116596
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Literature, Anthologies
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