A01=Joy Williams
Author_Joy Williams
best american fiction
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climate fiction
dark humour
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George Saunders
Ling Ma
Lorrie Moore
magical realism
short stories
Product details
- ISBN 9781805228578
- Weight: 161g
- Dimensions: 126 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 04 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nominated for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award
Lauded as the best story writer of our time, Joy Williams returns with a taut collection that responds to our modern dilemmas with her signature dry wit and deftness of touch. In sinister and shifting landscapes, we meet souls lost and found: from the twin heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune, who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family's deeds, to a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence, to the "pelican child", who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs.
For readers of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders, these haunted stories examine the instincts separating us from the beastly and the divine.
Joy Williams is the author of four novels, including Pulitzer Prize-nominated The Quick and the Dead, and four 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.
