The state we're in : Maine stories / Ann Beattie.
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TextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2015Edition: First Scribner hardcover editionDescription: x, 206 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781501107818 (hardcover); 150110781X (hardcover)Other title: State we are in | Maine storiesUniform titles: Short stories. Selections Contained works: Beattie, Ann, What magical realism would be [author.]Subject(s): Teenage girls -- Maine -- Fiction | Teenage girls | Maine -- Fiction | MaineGenre/Form: Fiction. | Short stories. DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3552.E177 | A6 2015| Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | A J M Library 868-5076 | BEAT (Browse shelf) | Available | 49220 |
What magical realism would be -- The fledgling -- Aunt Sophie Renaldo Brown -- Adirondack chairs -- Yancey -- Silent prayer -- Endless rain into a paper cup -- Duff's done enough -- Elvis is ahead of us -- Major maybe -- Road movie -- The little hutchinsons -- The stroke -- Missed calls -- The repurposed barn.
This is about more than geographical location of Maine, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of other characters interrupt Jocelyn's, sometimes challenging, sometimes embellishing her view.

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