Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The State We're In: Maine Stories

The State We're In: Maine Stories

Ann Beattie
2.9/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
From a multiple prize–winning master of the short form: a stunning collection of brand-new, linked stories that perfectly capture the zeitgeist through the voices of vivid and engaging women from adolescence to old age.

“We build worlds for ourselves wherever we go,” writes Ann Beattie. The State We’re In, her magnificent new collection of linked stories, is about how we live in the places we have chosen—or been chosen by. It’s about the stories we tell our families, our friends, and ourselves, the truths we may or may not see, how our affinities unite or repel us, and where we look for love.

Many of these stories are set in Maine, but The State We’re In is about more than geographical location, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of other characters interrupt Jocelyn’s, sometimes challenging, sometimes embellishing her view.

Riveting, witty, sly, idiosyncratic, and bold, these stories describe a state of mind, a manner of being—now. A Beattie story, says Margaret Atwood, is “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 relations.” The State We’re In is a fearless exploration of contemporary life by a brilliant writer whose fiction startles as it illuminates.
Language
English
Pages
206
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Scribner
Release
August 11, 2015
ISBN
150110781X
ISBN 13
9781501107818

The State We're In: Maine Stories

Ann Beattie
2.9/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
From a multiple prize–winning master of the short form: a stunning collection of brand-new, linked stories that perfectly capture the zeitgeist through the voices of vivid and engaging women from adolescence to old age.

“We build worlds for ourselves wherever we go,” writes Ann Beattie. The State We’re In, her magnificent new collection of linked stories, is about how we live in the places we have chosen—or been chosen by. It’s about the stories we tell our families, our friends, and ourselves, the truths we may or may not see, how our affinities unite or repel us, and where we look for love.

Many of these stories are set in Maine, but The State We’re In is about more than geographical location, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of other characters interrupt Jocelyn’s, sometimes challenging, sometimes embellishing her view.

Riveting, witty, sly, idiosyncratic, and bold, these stories describe a state of mind, a manner of being—now. A Beattie story, says Margaret Atwood, is “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 relations.” The State We’re In is a fearless exploration of contemporary life by a brilliant writer whose fiction startles as it illuminates.
Language
English
Pages
206
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Scribner
Release
August 11, 2015
ISBN
150110781X
ISBN 13
9781501107818

More books from Ann Beattie

Walks with Men

2.7/5 ( ratings)

Chilly Scenes of Winter

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The New Yorker Stories

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Where You'll Find Me and Other Stories

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Accomplished Guest

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Picturing Will

3.3/5 ( ratings)

McSweeney's #16

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Love Always

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Distortions

4/5 ( ratings)

McSweeney's #23

3.8/5 ( ratings)

The Burning House

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Park City: New and Selected Stories

4.1/5 ( ratings)

The Granta Book of the American Short Story

4/5 ( ratings)

At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women

4.4/5 ( ratings)

The Doctor's House

2.9/5 ( ratings)

The Paris Review #196

4/5 ( ratings)

Pets: An Anthology

4.5/5 ( ratings)

We Don't Live Here Anymore

4/5 ( ratings)

Complete Stories 1938–1959: A Spinster’s Tale / What You Hear from ’Em? / Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time / Miss Leonora When Last Seen / Other Stories

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Complete Stories 1960-1992: Dean of Men / In the Miro District / The Old Forest / Other Stories

4/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader