num_pages: 288
description: Haunting and disturbingly powerful, these stories established Ann Beattie as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction and an absolute master of the short-story form. Beattie captures perfectly the profound longings that came to define an entire generation with insight, compassion, and humor.
language: English
title: Distortions
titlecomplete: Distortions
genres: Short Stories, American Fiction, Literature, The United States Of America, Fiction
ratings_count: 291
publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group