Park City: New and Selected Stories

For more than twenty-five years, Ann Beattie's short fiction has held a mirror up to America, portraying its awkwardly welded families, its loosely coupled couples, and much-uprooted children with acuity, humor, and compassion. This triumphant collection includes thirty-six of the finest stories of her career including eight new pieces that have not appeared in a book before.
Beattie's characters embark on stoned cross-country odysseys with lovers who may leave them before the engine cools. They comfort each other amid the ashes of failed relationships and in hospital waiting rooms. They try to locate themselves in a world where all the old landmarks have been turned into theme parks. Funny and sorrowful, fiercely compressed yet emotionally
expansive, Park City is dazzling.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 06/29/1999
ISBN: 9780679781332
Pages: 496
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 1.17d

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 07/01/1999 pg. 38
New York Times 07/25/1999 pg. 24
New York Times 12/05/1999 pg. 105
New York Review of Books 07/14/2011 pg. 36