From 'the literary heir to Anton Chekov' (Washington Post) comes 'a treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces' (New York Times) - brand new microfiction from American master Joy Williams
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.
Funny, fantastical ... Williams' says more in a page-long scene
than most can say in a chapter; it's fitting, then, that her very
short collection manages to encompass such an eternal theme with
wit and grace.
*Huffington Post*
To read Joy Williams is to be arrested in a state of relentless awe
and wonderment ... why we aren't worshipping Joy Williams in public
squares is beyond me
*Vanity Fair*
She belongs in the company of Céline and Flannery O'Connor
*James Salter*
One of our most remarkable storytellers
*Ann Beattie*
One of the great American short story writers
*Jay McInerney*
A treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces ... chains of
association appeared and disappeared like currents in a
swift-flowing stream
*The New York Times*
Radically compressed ... new territory for Williams, with a brevity
and a strict whimsy you might encounter in Lydia Davis's work ...
easy to follow and hard to fathom; easy to enjoy and harder to
absorb
*New Yorker*
A collection of tiny, wry masterpieces. [100 Notable Books of the
Year]
*New York Times*
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