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The Accomplished Guest
A General Fiction Short Story Collection by Ann Beattie
Subgenres:
- Short Stories,
- Literary Fiction,
- East Coast
This book is for you if you're into...
- East Coast settings from Maine to Key West
- Biting humor in stories about awkward visits and unexpected guests
- Unconventional friendships tested by mortality and aging
A Washington Post Notable Fiction Book of the Year
Ann Beattie’s “seamless combination of biting wit and mordant humor, precise irony, and consummate cool” is on full display in this astutely observed collection set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, that explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging.
In The Accomplished Guest, people pay visits or receive visitors, travel to see old friends, and experience the joys and tolls of hosting company (and of being hosted).
In some stories, as in life, what begins as a benign social event becomes a situation played for high stakes.
The pieces in The Accomplished Guest—featuring recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Story selections—are marked by an undercurrent of loss and an unexpected element of violence, with Beattie’s signature mordant humor woven throughout.
Some guests provide welcome diversions, others are uninvited interruptions, all are indelibly drawn.
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