Perfect Recall (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ann Beattie
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: 1995-2000
- Setting: Maine; New York City; Key West, Florida
- Principal Characters: Carleyville, Richard Howard Manson, Jane, Fran, Derek
- Genres: Short fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Dogs, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, New York City, Friendship, Yards or backyards, New England, Veterans, Florida, Holidays, Disasters, Natural disasters, Men, 1990’s, Animals, Hurricanes, Maine
- Locales: New York, NY, Maine, Key West, FL
Fresh from the success of her new and collected stories Park City (1998), Ann Beattie offers up Perfect Recall (2001), a collection of eleven stories, all set in the present, but using the 1960’s and 1970’s as a mythological buttress which many of the characters reference. The stories mark something of a departure from Beattie’s earlier stories and novels that offer authentic glimpses into the ambiguity of contemporary relationships. Though some of her earlier skill shows through in stories such as “Mermaids” and the title story “Perfect Recall,” this...
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