ONLOOKERS: Stories, by Ann BeattieThe Covid lockdown period already seems, as a subject, like a flattened corpse over which the whole of American culture and commentary has trampled.
A case in point is “Onlookers,” Ann Beattie’s new collection of stories, her best in more than two decades.
It takes as its subject Charlottesville, Va., a city remade by quarantine, population growth, new money and the fresh forces shaping American life.
program at the University of Virginia, to personages such as Peter Taylor, Alison Lurie, Sam Shepard and Beattie herself.
It’s where James Alan McPherson and John Casey discovered Breece D’J Pancake, and where Pancake took his own life.
Persons:
Ann Beattie, ” Ann Beattie’s, ”, Peter Taylor, Alison Lurie, Sam Shepard, Beattie, It’s, James Alan McPherson, John Casey, Breece, Pancake, John Grisham
Organizations:
University of Virginia
Locations:
Charlottesville, Va