Perfect recall
Subtitle: new stories
By: by Ann Beattie
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 347
ISBN-13: 9780743211697
Subjects: Social life and customs; Fiction
Description: These eleven stories "are peopled by characters coming to terms with the legacies of long-held family myths or confronting altered circumstances--new frailty or sudden, unlikely success."--Jacket.
Notes: Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Hurricane Carleyville; title: The big-breasted pilgrim; title: Mermaids; title: Cat people; title: The women of this world; title: The infamous fall of Howell the clown; title: See the pyramids; title: In irons; title: Coydog; title: Perfect recall; title: The famous poet, Amid Bougainvillea.