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  <title><![CDATA[What Was Mine: &amp; Other Stories]]></title>
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  <default_description>A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary lives.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1991</original_publication_year>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't remember most of this being especially great, except &quot;The Working Girl,&quot; which is one of my favorite short stories. It's not a big deal, and I don't know that it'd do much for most people, but I have a large amount of affection for it. If you're in the bookstore, maybe check it out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7766028">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every time I pick up one of her collections, I end up putting it down after not too long.  She is definitely a short story-ist versus a novelist.  I never find myself wanting more or remembering much of the lives of her neurotic, educated, upper-class characters. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These short stories are a collection of brief and seemingly ordinary interactions expressed with magic.  Ann Beatty seems to be a master of expressing much about a situation while keeping the story simple.  Even the longer pieces are told in the same vignette style.  This is the first book I have re...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18840503">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a collection of short stories (some less than 8 pages long) and like all collections some are better than others. my favorites are the story about Amalfi and the last one in the book, Windy Day at the Reservoir. I liked them because although I didn't see the resolution/the twist to the story...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32474681">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Several short stories involving loss and change. Interesting, but not a book I couldn't put down a lot. Made it seem like life was all about loss and what we give up to move on.]]></body>
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