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A magnificent new collection from award-winning creator Ann Beattie - offering recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Story selections. Astonishing and revealing, established over the East Coast from Maine to Key Western world, Ann Beattie's astutely witnessed new collection explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and ageing. One theme of The Accomplished Guest is people paying trips or receiving site visitors, traveling to see old friends, the joys and tolls of hosting company (and to be hosted). The occasion might be a wedding, a birthday, a reunion, an twelve-monthly Christmas party, or another possibility to gather and attempt to bond with biological relatives or chosen individuals. In some stories, such as life, what commences as a harmless cultural event becomes a predicament played out for high stakes. The stories in The Accomplished Guest are marked by an undercurrent of loss and an unexpected element of assault, with Beattie's signature mordant humor woven throughout. Some character types provide pleasant diversions; others are uninvited interruptions; all are indelibly attracted by the endlessly amusing and attained Ann Beattie. Beattie's debut collection, Distortions, was shared 40 years ago, but her writing is as fresh, funny, and relevant as ever before. She is "a countrywide treasure, the author of short stories that will go through and continue to inspire" (Jay McInerney, The New York Times Reserve Review).
