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Onlookers : stories / Ann Beattie.
"Onlookers is a story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668013656 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: ix, 275 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Pegasus -- In the great Southern tradition -- Nearby -- Alice Ott -- Monica, headed home -- The bubble. |
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| Subject: | Southern States > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Short stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | FIC Beatt | 31681010332336 | FICTION | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The award-winning and beloved short story writer presents this new collection about people living in Charlottesville, Virginia, whose lives intersect in surprising ways, involving the reader in complicated questions about community, inheritance and how the present interacts with the past in a time of COVID-19 and national unrest. - Baker & Taylor
"Onlookers is a story collection about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways"-- - Simon and Schuster
* âSupple, superb.â âThe Boston Globe * âA deft mash of lonesomeness and wit.â âChicago Tribune * âHer best in more than two decades.â âThe New York Times *
Award-winning short story writer Ann Beattie returns with a âsophisticated, idiosyncratic, and wittyâ (Star Tribune, Minneapolis) collection of linked stories set in Charlottesville, Virginia, in a moment of unrest.
Onlookers is collection of extraordinary stories about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways. Peaceful Charlottesville, Virginia, drew national attention when white nationalists held a rally there in 2017, a horrific event whose repercussions are still felt today. Confederate monuments such as General Robert E. Lee atop his horse were then still standing. The statues are a constant presence and a metaphoric refrain throughout this collection, though they represent different things to different characters. Some landmarks may have faded from consciousness but provoke fresh outrage when viewed through newly opened eyes.
In âNearby,â an elderly man and his younger wife watch from their penthouse as protestors gather to oppose the once âheroicâ explorers Lewis and Clark depicted towering over their native guide, Sacagawea. A lawyer in âIn the Great Southern Traditionâ deals with a crisis on Richmondâs Monument Avenue, while his sister and nephew plant tulip bulbs at her stately home.
These are stories of unexpected relationships that affirm the value of friendship, even when it requires difficult compromises or unexpected risks. Ann Beattie explores questions about the nature of community, and âproves her herself up to the task of pinpointing Americaâs contradictionsâ (Publishers Weekly).
