Follies
Subtitle: new stories
By: Ann Beattie
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780743269612
Subjects: American Domestic fiction; Parent and adult child; Fiction
Description: A collection of short works features the themes of adult children, aging parents, and life-changing chance encounters, presenting in the title work the catastrophic consequences of a man's car accident with an elderly woman.
Table of contents: title: Fléchette follies; title: Find and replace; title: Duchais; title: Tending something; title: Apology for a journey not taken; title: Mostre; title: The garden game; title: The rabbit hole as likely explanation; title: Just going out; title: That last odd day in L.A.