Honored Guest (Vintage Contemporaries) - Softcover

Williams, Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1400095522 ISBN 13: 9781400095520

Verlag: Vintage, 2005

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Book by Williams Joy

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"Beautiful. . . . Unsettling. . . . [Contains] among the best American short stories of the past two decades." -The Atlantic Monthly

"The short stories in Joy Williams's Honored Guest are so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race." -Vanity Fair

"By all means read, and re-read, these subtle and touching and deceptively funny and sometimes darkly magical stories." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"A brilliant spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor, Joy Williams blends mordant wit, uncanny characters, and weirdly familiar landscapes and locales. . . . By turns these narratives soothe, then surprise, then shock with jolts of recognition, recoil, and naked redemption." -Elle

"Joy Williams wastes not a word in the stories that she tells. . . . Phenomenally interesting. . . . Miraculously and intelligently weird." -Chicago Tribune

"In wonderful, stark relief, Williams gives us a glimpse into this pliability of the human heart, its marvelous ability to withstand adversity and accommodate whatever comes next." -Los Angeles Times Book Review

"If Joy Williams's publisher made cigarettes rather than story collections it would be required to slap a consumer warning on her latest collection, Honored Guest. . . . [It's] narcotic-alluring precisely because it is toxic, dangerous. And Williams is so good she merely has to wave her characters' melancholia under our noses and we crave more." -The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Darkly enticing and intuitive. . . . In Williams's hands, the inevitability of death is both poignant and, at times, comfortably humorous." -Rocky Mountain News

"The unexpected is the only thing that can be counted on-other than the author's brilliant prose, acerbic humor and implicit biting commentary on the state of our world today." -Santa Fe New Mexican

"Captur[es] the casual brutality of everyday life with a combination of grim humor, macabre incident and an ironic eye. . . . There's a thrilling appeal, a perverse pleasure, in reading Williams' cold take on things. . . . Fascinating." -The Oregonian

"Each [story] spins with the searing comedy and blunt drama of the gallows. . . . Williams is a deeply compassionate writer, and in these luminous, feeling moments, the specter of another writer from another century and another country rises: Anton Chekhov, the book's honored ghost." -Time Out New York

"Joy Williams's collection is an engrossing and perceptive work." -Richmond Times-Dispatch

"[Williams] balances horror and humor with uncanny skill and laces her stories with compassion. . . . Her stories stick in the mind like burrs." -The Columbus Dispatch

"[A] darkly humorous, potent collection." -Anniston Star

"There is much artistry to be found in the short story. . . . Especially when it is in the hands of an artist like Joy Williams." -Tulsa World

"Of the many qualities of her prose-clarity, economy, intelligence, complete mastery of the sentence-the most conspicuous is authority. . . . Joy Williams's stories are illuminating, burning, intelligent and large." -Books and Culture

Reseña del editor:

Journeying from such settings as Nantucket to the Southwest and Central America, this collection of short fiction features twelve stories that explore how diverse characters--from grown children confronting the end of their parents' lives to teenagers dealing with sudden death--cope with the travails, tragedies, and challenges of life. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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• Verlag: Vintage
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400095522
• ISBN 13: 9781400095520
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224