cover image What Was Mine: & Other Stories

What Was Mine: & Other Stories

Ann Beattie. Vintage Books USA, $15.95 (252pp) ISBN 978-0-679-73903-6

In these 12 stories, whose protagonists represent a wide range of voices, ages and social classes, Beattie effectively conveys their epiphanies, though at times she carries subtlety to extremes. (May)