The Visiting Privilege: Joy Williams - Softcover

Williams, Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781257477 ISBN 13: 9781781257470

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

'How to tell the story of a 500-page collection of stories spanning more than forty years? Especially when I really want to just exclaim, "Oh, Oh, OH!" in a state of steadily mounting rapture' Geoff Dyer, ObserverWilliams' uniquely devastating portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers and writers for 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. Bleak but funny, real but surreal, domestic but dangerous, familiar but enigmatic, Joy Williams' stories fray away the fabric at the edge of ordinary experience to reveal the loneliness at the heart 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 Visiting Privilege represents the culmination of Williams' career and cements her place as the most singular artist of short fiction writing today.

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Críticas:

Perhaps the greatest living master of the short story ... easily taking her place among the ranks of Mavis Gallant, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, John Cheever and Raymond Carver (Neel Mukherjee Guardian Books of the Year)

Joy Williams is a stone-cold 100% American original ... a treasure trove of high-octane prose and surreal wit (Rupert Thomson Herald Books of the Year 2016-11-26)

An electric and dangerously human volume (Philip Hensher Spectator Books of the Year 2016-11-21)

The literary heir to Anton Chekhov (Washington Post)

Williams is a flawless writer, and The Visiting Privilege is a perfect book (NPR)

Joy Williams is simply a wonder (Raymond Carver)

She belongs in the company of Céline and Flannery O'Connor (James Salter)

How to tell the story of a 500-page collection of stories spanning more than 40 years? Especially when I really want to just exclaim, "Oh, Oh, OH!" in a state of steadily mounting rapture (Geoff Dyer Observer)

The Visiting Privilege cements Williams's position not merely as one of the great writers of her generation, but as our pre-eminent bard of humanity's insignificance (New York Times Magazine)

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)

Biografía del autor:

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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• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1781257477
• ISBN 13: 9781781257470
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 512