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Onlookers is collection of extraordinary stories about people living in the same Southern town whose lives intersect in surprising ways....

Ann Beattie, a master storyteller, has been delighting readers since the publication of her short stories in the 1970s and her first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter....

Ann Beattie's astutely observed new collection explores unconventional friendships, frustrated loves, mortality, and aging....

At a boarding school in New Hampshire, Ben joins the honor society led by Pierre LaVerdere, a brilliant yet perverse teacher who instructs his students not only about how to reason, but how to prevaricate. As the years go by, LaVerdere's instruction lingers in his students' lives....

"We build worlds for ourselves wherever we go," writes Ann Beattie. The State We're In, her magnificent new collection of linked stories, is about how we live....