03476cam a2200349 4500 522265065 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781508241669 150824166X f60f4036-e1b4-4381-8908-ce33080f640c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3198605 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Beattie, Ann. The Accomplished Guest [Libby] : Stories. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 196MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 196MB. Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. Humor (Fiction.) HTML:<b>* A <i>Washington Post</i> Notable Fiction Book of the Year</b><br /> <br /> A magnificent collection from award-winning author Ann Beattie—"profoundly intriguing and unsettling stories that abound in delectably witty and furious inner monologues, barbed dialogue, ludicrous predicaments, many faceted heartaches, and abrupt upswellings of affection, even love...always on point, funny, and poignant" (<i>Booklist</i>, starred review).<br /> Ann Beattie's "seamless combination of biting wit and mordant humor, precise irony, and consummate cool" is on full display in this astutely observed collection set along the East Coast from Maine to Key West, that explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging. In <i>The Accomplished Guest</i>, people pay visits or receive visitors, travel to see old friends, and experience the joys and tolls of hosting company (and of being hosted). In some stories, as in life, what begins as a benign social event becomes a situation played for high stakes.<br /> <br /> "Ann Beattie slips into a short story as flawlessly as Audrey Hepburn wore a Givenchy gown" (<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i>), and the pieces in <i>The Accomplished</i> Guest—featuring recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and <i>Best American Short Story</i> selections—are marked by an undercurrent of loss and an unexpected element of violence, with Beattie's signature mordant humor woven throughout. Some guests provide welcome diversions, others are uninvited interruptions, all are indelibly drawn.<br /> <br /> Beattie "punctures her characters' pretensions and jadedness with an economy and effortless dialogue that writers have been trying to emulate for three decades" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>). <i>The Accomplished Guest</i> is fresh, funny, and overwhelmingly "brilliant at furnishing the precise level of niggling complexity that is tragicomically real" (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>). Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. Zackman, Gabra. Roy, Jacques. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3198605-TheAccomplishedGuest.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f60f4036-e1b4-4381-8908-ce33080f640c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/5054-1/3198605-TheAccomplishedGuest.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=f60f4036-e1b4-4381-8908-ce33080f640c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)