What Was Mine: & Other Stories

by Ann Beattie

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679739036
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	06/16/1992
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Ann Beattie has published eight novels and ten collections of stories, among them Chilly Scenes of Winter, Falling in Place, The Burning House, Love Always, Picturing 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.

Hometown:

Maine and Key West, Florida

Date of Birth:

September 8, 1947

Place of Birth:

Washington, D.C.

Education:

B.A., American University, 1969; M.A., University of Connecticut, 1970