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.
24 Ebooks por Joy Williams
Joy Williams: Ninety-Nine Stories of God
At a hot-dog-eating contest or at a demolition derby, in line at the pharmacy counter waiting for a shingles vaccination, living in a cave with a colony of bats: the Almighty appears in ever-more mys …
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Joy Williams: The Changeling
When we first meet Pearl – young in years but advanced in her drinking – she’s sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics. Cradled in the crook of her arm is her infant son. But …
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Joy Williams: The Visiting Privilege
‘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 …
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Rob Spillman: Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House
Featuring work by some of the most exciting contemporary women writers in the United States, Fantastic Women comprises eighteen inventive, insightful narratives steeped in a heady potion of surrealis …
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€18.99
Joy Williams: Ninety-Nine Stories of God
A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year at Esquire, Seattle Times, Minnesota Star Tribune, Huffington Post, and Publishers Weekly. From “quite possibly America …
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€15.99
Joy Williams: The Changeling
With a new introduction by Karen Russell, the 40th anniversary edition of The Changeling is a visionary fairy tale and a work of mythic genius by one of our best writers. Forty years later, The Chang …
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Joy Williams: Harrow
Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction A Sunday Times Book of the Year A Times Paperback of the Year In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist …
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Joy Williams: Stories
Eine Nacht lang erkunden zwei Mädchen einen Zug mit Bar und Zauberbühne und lernen dabei ihr künftiges Leben kennen. Eine Frau, ratlos, plötzlich schlaflos, wird von der Faszination für eine nächtlic …
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Joy Williams: L’altro bambino
Questa è la storia di Pearl. La trama non conta. Del resto il mondo tangibile si dissolve davanti ai nostri occhi subito dopo le prime righe, mentre la osserviamo sorseggiare un gin tonic sedu …
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Joy Williams: Concerning the Future of Souls
‘Glittering. . . . filled with humor, canny allusion, beauty.”—The New Yorker “Quite possibly America’s best living writer of short stories.”—NPR “Williams is a writer for our times: both visionary a …
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Joy Williams: In der Gnade
Kate flieht – vor der unnachgiebigen Liebe ihres Predigervaters und um ihr Leben zu finden, die Wirklichkeit. An der sonnendurchglühten Golfküste jobbt sie als Kellnerin, schläft mit namenlosen Bekan …
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Brad Watson: There Is Happiness: New and Selected Stories
A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction. “Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the …
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Joy Williams: Concerning the Future of Souls
‘A book completed by a master of the craft. Prepare to be moved’ Guardian ‘Holy, gorgeous and politically red-hot masterpieces’ Daily Telegraph ‘An intricate, perfectly articulated work of art’ Times …
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