The visiting privilege: new and collected stories Williams, Joy

By:

Williams, Joy

Publication details: Alfred A. Knopf New York 2015Description: 490 pISBN:

9781101874899

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813.54 W4V4

Summary: 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. And 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. (http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/248287/the-visiting-privilege/)

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Table of contents:

I.COLLECTED STORIES
1.Taking Care
2.The Lover
3.Summer
4.Preparation for a Collie
5.The Wedding
6.The Yard Boy
7.Shepherd
8.Train
9.The Excursion
10.Winter Chemistry
11.Shorelines
12.The Farm
13.Escapes
14.Rot
15.The Skater
16.Lu-Lu
17.The Little Winter
18.Health
19.White
20.The Blue Men
21.The Last Generation
22.Honored Guest
23.Congress
24.Marabou
25.The Visiting Privilege
26.Substance
27.Charity
28.Anodyne
29.ACK
30.The Other Week
31.Hammer
32.Fortune
33.Bromeliads

II.NEW STORIES
1.Brass
2.The Girls
3.Revenant
4.The Mission
5.Another Season
6.Dangerous
7.In the Park
8.Cats and Dogs
9.The Bridgetender
10.Souvenir
11.The Country
12.The Mother Cell

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. And 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.

(http://knopfdoubleday.com/book/248287/the-visiting-privilege/)

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