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    ‘A Wonderful Stroke of Luck’: Featured Fiction from Ann Beattie

    by Editor Apr 02, 2019 3 minutes

    In today’s featured fiction, we present an excerpt from chapter three of Ann Beattie’s new novel, A Wonderful Stroke of Luck, out today from Viking. Kirkus praised the book, calling it an “elegantly sculpted tale that is both wrenchingly sad and ultimately enigmatic.”

    A Wonderful Stroke of Luck

    A car pulled in and a woman hopped out, unscrewed the gas cap, and began pushing buttons before inserting her credit card. Someone else came out of the store, eating a candy bar. There were people around

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