If you've never read Joy Williams, you've never read anyone like Joy Williams
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Joy Williams is the author of four novels - the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 - and three collections of stories, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honours are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming.
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Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Joy Williams' peerless short stories are unlike anything else. Her uniquely devastating, emotionally acute, morbidly funny portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers and writers for three decades. Here, for the first time, Williams' thirty-three best stories are available in a single volume, together with thirteen new stories that show a writer continuing to mould the form into something strange and new. Triangulate a patch of uncharted territory between Lydia Davis, Raymond Carver and Don DeLillo, and somewhere there you'll find Williams at work. Real but surreal, bleak but funny, domestic but dangerous, familiar but enigmatic, her stories fray away the fabric at the very edge of ordinary experience to reveal the buzzing, transient, empty loneliness of human life. In 'The Lover', a girl suffers a spiritual and physical wasting away; in 'The Visiting Privilege', a visitor finds refuge in her friend's psychiatric ward; in 'Charity', a woman gives a poor family gas money and finds herself marooned in their peculiar world; in 'Another Season' an itinerant man cleanses an island of roadkill; in 'Craving' an alcoholic couple head towards a car crash. The forty-six flawless stories collected in The Visiting Privilege represent the culmination of Williams' career and cement her place as the most singular artist of short fiction writing today. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N° de réf. du vendeur GOR008093764
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Vendeur : Mungobooks, Poole, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing hardback in unclipped jacket. Both book and jacket in VG+ condition with no inscriptions, slight wear to top of jacket. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1730639006568
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Vendeur : Greener Books, London, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books. N° de réf. du vendeur 4970779
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Vendeur : Mungobooks, Poole, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing hardback in unclipped dustjacket. Book and dustjacket both in fine condition with no inscriptions. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder. Scans available on request. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1772215227954
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Vendeur : S.Carter, NEWPORT, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing.near fine unread hardback in near fine dustwrapper. N° de réf. du vendeur kkktrookmkkw
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