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Ann Beattie
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Dazzlingly original, Ann Beatties Mrs. Nixon is a riveting exploration of an elusive American icon and of the fiction writers 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 Nixons wife: "interchangeable with a Martian," she said. Decades later, she wonders what it must have been like...
4) Another you
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
At center: Marshall Lockard, who teaches English at a small New England college, and his wife, Sonja, a real estate broker in the college town. As the novel opens, Marshall has become increasingly remote, walling himself off from his students by his ironic tone and from his wife by his air of detachment. The marriage has reached a danger point: Sonja is playing at having an affair with her boss; Marshall is flirting with a student. And they are about...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
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, dont say its because you want leftovers for "the dog." Say that you want the bones for "a friend who does autopsies." If...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by Vulture, The Millions, The Observer, and O, The Oprah Magazine
A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel—the twenty-first book by Ann Beattie—about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love
At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, an...
A razor-sharp, deeply felt new novel—the twenty-first book by Ann Beattie—about the complicated relationship between a charismatic teacher and his students, and the secrets we keep from those we love
At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, an...