Perfect Recall
Ann Beattie
The dozen stories in this new work are peopled by an assortment of
characters contending with contemporary American life in ways alternately
moving, comic, wrenching, and unmistakably human. From the title story in
which two thirty-something men trade ruminations on illness, art, and
servitude, to The Big Breasted Pilgrim, wherein a famous chef
gets a series of bewildering calls from George Staphanopoulos, this work
comprises a dead-on commentary on the way we live.
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books