What Was Mine: & Other Stories

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Mar 23, 2011 - Fiction - 252 pages
A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives.

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IMAGINE A DAY AT THE END OF YOUR LIFE
HONEY
THE WORKING GIRL
HOME TO MARIE
TELEVISION
YOU KNOW WHAT
WHAT WAS MINE
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Ann Beattie has published eight novels and ten collections of stories, among them Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling in Place, The Burning House, Love AlwaysPicturing Will, and Another You. She was the Edgar Allan Poe Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia (emerita). She is a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters and of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She and her husband, Lincoln Perry, live in Maine and Key West, Florida.

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