The Accomplished Guest : Stories

by Ann Beattie

Book Overview

Ann Beattie's astutely observed new collection features recent O. Henry, Pushcart, and Best American Short Stories selections and explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, aging, and mortality. In The Accomplished Guest, people pay visits or receive visitors, travel to see old friends, and experience the joys and tolls of hosting company (and being hosted). The occasion might be a wedding, a birthday, a reunion, an annual Christmas party,...