{"product_id":"perfect-recall-new-stories-9780743211703","title":"Perfect Recall: New Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of striking short stories filled with memorable characters from award-winning author Ann Beattie.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePeopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own expectations, this collection of eleven stories from Ann Beattie makes it strikingly clear why she is known as one of \"American literature's most adept explorers and interpreters of the unraveling edges of life\" \u003ci\u003e(Miami Herald).\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the elegiac story \"The Famous Poet, Amid Bougainvillea,\" in which two men trade ruminations about the odd experience of being cared for by those you are meant to serve, to \"The Big-Breasted Pilgrim,\" wherein a famous chef gets a series of bewildering phone calls from George Stephanopoulos, expressing Clinton's desire to dine at his house, to two stories in which family myths turn out to be both inaccurate and prescient, \u003ci\u003ePerfect Recall\u003c\/i\u003e comprises Beattie's most ambitious and complex work yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743211703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.83d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/03\/2002 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/14\/2011 pg. 36\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ann Beattie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43112024015029,"sku":"9780743211703","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bbb14bbe-ba47-4e69-afa7-13000d2cc246.jpg?v=1693927051","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/perfect-recall-new-stories-9780743211703","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}