| The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories Contributor(s): Williams, Joy (Author) |
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ISBN: 110187371X ISBN-13: 9781101873717 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2014043360 |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.85 lbs) 512 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The legendary writer's definitive story collection, and a literary event of the highest order 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 Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. At long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar. Virtually all American writers have their favorite Joy Williams stories, as do many readers of all ages, and each one of them is available here. |