{"product_id":"burning-house-isbn-9780679765004","title":"Burning House","description":"The now-classic, utterly unique voice of Ann Beattie is so dry it throws off sparks, her eye endowed with the emotional equivalent of X-ray vision. Her characters are young men and women discovering what it means to be a grown-up in a country that promised them they'd stay young forever. And here, in shapely, penetrating stories, Beattie confirms why she is one of the most widely imitated -- yet surely inimitable -- literary stylists of her generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cb\u003eThe Burning House\u003c\/b\u003e, Beattie's characters go from dealing drugs to taking care of a bereaved friend. They watch their marriages fail not with a bang but with a wisecrack. And afterward, they may find themselves trading confidences with their spouses' new lovers. \u003cb\u003eThe Burning House\u003c\/b\u003e proves that Beattie has no peer when it comes to revealing the hidden shapes of our relationships, or the depths of tenderness, grief, and anger that lie beneath the surfaces of our daily lives.\"Reads like a fresh bulletin from the front: We snatch it up, eager to know what's happening out there on the edge of that shifting and dubious no man's land known as interpersonal relationships.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Burning brilliance.... This collection of short stories is the work of a writer with a dazzling gift.... Beattie's eye is clear, her ear finely tuned, her mind brilliantly odd.... A joy to read.\"--Chicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003eBorn in 1947, Ann Beattie grew up in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., attended college at American University, and went on to do graduate work in English literature at the University of Connecticut. She began writing stories out of frustration with her doctoral work. After rejecting twenty-two submissions, \u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e published Beattie's \"A Platonic Relationship\" in 1974, and Beattie became a regular contributor to the magazine. Her first collection of stories, \u003cb\u003eDistortions\u003c\/b\u003e, and her first novel, \u003cb\u003eChilly Scenes of Winter\u003c\/b\u003e, appeared simultaneously in 1976 and initiated a long-standing critical debate as to whether Beattie's greater strength is in the story or the novel. All critics agree, however, on the uniqueness of her style and her uncanny ability to expose certain truths about contemporary life, particularly as it lived by those of her own generation and social class. She lives in Maine and Key West with her husband, the painter Lincoln Perry.Stories","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302315217125,"sku":"NP9780679765004","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679765004.jpg?v=1767723207","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/burning-house-isbn-9780679765004","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}