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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display- thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar. Virtually all American writers have their favorite Joy Williams stories, as do many readers of all ages, and each one of them is available here. From the Hardcover edition. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781101873717
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Product DescriptionThe definitive story collection by one of the most celebrated American short-story writers. Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over (Vanity Fair).Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. At long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar.Virtually all American writers have their favorite Joy Williams stories, as do many readers of all ages, and each one of them is available here.ReviewBy one of the most celebrated American short-story writers. . . these forty-six stories are powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over. -Nicole Jones, Vanity FairThis volume traces Joy Williamss journey to sui generis master. Her nearest cousin among American writers is Don DeLillo, but only because, as with him, nobody writes sentences like she does. . . . Though she treats common states-parenthood, pet ownership, alcoholism-Williams eschews the realist story writers bromide that in the ordinary we find the extraordinary, because theres nothing ordinary about her work. -Christian Lorentzen, New YorkA fifty-course, full-tilt tasting menu of misanthropy and guile. This career-spanning collection solidifies Ms. Williamss position as a thorny American writer of this first rank. Dire circumstances blend with offbeat wit in Ms. Williamss work. The mental heat they give off places them at the far end of the Scoville scale, yet they are plump with soul and real feeling. -Dwight Garner, The Top Books of 2015, The New York TimesSuch brilliant and depressing fiction that after I read it I was nervous to ever try writing again. . . . Hope is very damaged in these pages, but you will find yourself laughing out loud as you muffle a gasp of crippled optimism. I am a real Johnny-come-lately to Joy Williams, but since finishing this new collection I have run out and bought every book she ever wrote. You should, too. -John Waters, The San Francisco ChronicleJoy Williams has long been one of Americas greatest living writers, and The Visiting Privilege might [be] the best book of the year. Her sentences are as sharp and precise as scalpel incisions, and her ability to turn the real beautifully surreal is second to none. . . . If you have yet to read Williamss work, there is no better place to start than this book, which collects stories from across her decades of groundbreaking work alongside several new stories. -Lincoln Michael, Editor-in-Chief, Electric Literature[This] is powerfully united by Joy Williamss profound gift for illuminating, with compassion and mordant humor, characters on the jagged edge of grief and spiritual ruin. . . . The search for mercy is at odds with a landscape that is increasingly merciless-and yet hope remains [and]the stories are rich with tenderness. . . . The Visiting Privilege is also laced with Williamss trademark cutting wit, which provides a small release, as of steam escaping through a pressure valve, while also pushing the stories' dark absurdity. -Laura Van Den Berg, O MagazineImmaculate artistry [and] one of the most fearless, abyss-embracing literary projects our literature has seen [with] the sort of helpless laughter that erupts when a profound moral project is conducted wit. Seller Inventory # DADAX110187371X