{"product_id":"9780743214650","title":"Perfect Recall: A Story by Ann Beattie","description":"Ann Beattie published her first short story in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in 1972. Twenty-eight years later, she received the 2000 PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction. She is, as the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e said, \"one of our era's most vital masters of the short form.\" \u003cbr\u003e The eleven stories in her new work 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. Beattie's ear for language, her complex and subtle wit, and her profound compassion are unparalleled. \u003cbr\u003e From the elegiac story \"The Famous Poet, Amid Bougainvillea,\" in which two men trade ruminations on illness, art, and servitude, to \"The Big-Breasted Pilgrim,\" wherein a famous chef gets a series of bewildering phone calls from George Stephanopoulos, \u003ci\u003ePerfect Recall\u003c\/i\u003e comprises Beattie's strongest work in years. It is a riveting commentary on the way we live now by a spectacular prose artist.","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118225572080,"sku":"9780743214650","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780743214650_p0.jpg?v=1763631597","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780743214650","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}