The Visiting Privilege
Joy Williams
The Visiting Privilege
Joy Williams
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English
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Description
Now in paperback: the new collection from the acclaimed American short story writer Joy Williams.
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
Joy Williams is a stone-cold 100% American original ... a treasure trove of high-octane prose and surreal wit
An electric and dangerously human volume
The literary heir to Anton Chekhov
Williams is a flawless writer, and The Visiting Privilege is a perfect book
Joy Williams is simply a wonder
She belongs in the company of Céline and Flannery O'Connor
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
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
Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over
One of the most fearless, abyss-embracing literary projects our literature has seen ... ruthless, hilarious work that holds our human folly to the fire ... you can't much pin Joy Williams down with any obvious dark masters. She is American and contemporary and strange, comfortable in the skin of domestic realism, even if that mode is a kind of misleading costume for a far more sinister project not often seen in American, or any, short fiction
Deep, dazzling, disconcerting
Dark, funny, spare and unsparing ... wonderful ... Williams is fully alive to the tragicomedy of our transient lives.
Revisiting the edgy, perceptive, provocative stories of Joy Williams make The Visiting Privilege a celebration. From the opening story, 'Taking Care', Williams confirms her ironic pathos and consummate timing, and rarely falters.
Williams's short stories portray the edges of modern life in vivid, staccato detail and make for compelling reading. The narrative threads move forward in unpredictable, exciting and often unsettling detail.
One of the great American short story writers
The bright-bleak grand master of short stories
How had Joy Williams been missing from my life for so long? What a writer. What a voice. What a way of seeing.
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.
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
Joy Williams is a stone-cold 100% American original ... a treasure trove of high-octane prose and surreal wit
An electric and dangerously human volume
The literary heir to Anton Chekhov
Williams is a flawless writer, and The Visiting Privilege is a perfect book
Joy Williams is simply a wonder
She belongs in the company of Céline and Flannery O'Connor
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
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
Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over
One of the most fearless, abyss-embracing literary projects our literature has seen ... ruthless, hilarious work that holds our human folly to the fire ... you can't much pin Joy Williams down with any obvious dark masters. She is American and contemporary and strange, comfortable in the skin of domestic realism, even if that mode is a kind of misleading costume for a far more sinister project not often seen in American, or any, short fiction
Deep, dazzling, disconcerting
Dark, funny, spare and unsparing ... wonderful ... Williams is fully alive to the tragicomedy of our transient lives.
Revisiting the edgy, perceptive, provocative stories of Joy Williams make The Visiting Privilege a celebration. From the opening story, 'Taking Care', Williams confirms her ironic pathos and consummate timing, and rarely falters.
Williams's short stories portray the edges of modern life in vivid, staccato detail and make for compelling reading. The narrative threads move forward in unpredictable, exciting and often unsettling detail.
One of the great American short story writers
The bright-bleak grand master of short stories
How had Joy Williams been missing from my life for so long? What a writer. What a voice. What a way of seeing.
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.