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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's best living writer of short stories" (NPR), Ninety-Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal, knocking down the barriers between the workaday and the divine.

Poco nota in Italia, Joy Williams è universalmente riconosciuta come una delle maestre del racconto americano insieme a scrittori come Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Grace Paley e Ann Beattie. 'L'ospite d'onore' riunisce gran parte dei racconti, alcuni apparsi in precedenti raccolte, altri inediti, composti dall'autrice nell'arco di quasi cinquant'anni. Le sue storie ruotano tutte intorno a un momento di trasformazione, che spesso ha luogo al d...

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Wat heeft God te maken met post van een overleden moeder, Kafka die vegetariër is geworden en honden die hun penning verliezen?Deze zeer korte verhalen zijn een verkenningstocht van onze dagelijkse interactie met God. Williams' personages komen God op de meest onverwachte plaatsen tegen: bij een hotdogeetwedstrijd, een chic gala en in de apotheek. Ook God heeft namelijk soms last van gordelroos.

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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.

A collection of Williams' 33 best stories as well as 13 new stories in a single volume, a new paperback edition. 'Perhaps the greatest living master of the short story' Neel Mukherjee, "Guardian Books of the Year

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With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways-comic, tragic, and unnerving—we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. A masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student. From one of our most acclaimed writers, Honored Guest is a rich examination of our capacity for transformation a...

Excerpt In today's society, we have created a generation of children that have been empowered to know their rights. They have been informed through television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the Internet that they are not only children, but also smaller human beings that have certain privileges. Society may have meant it for the good of the children, but the children have used and abused these rights. We have been very careful not to ...

From a true American master of the short story, comes a collection of disturbing, comic, and moving takes that find deeper meanings in ordinary domestic life. Here with unforgetable characters, places and events--a young divorcee, a shared summer home, a troubled family, a wedding, the death of a pet--Williams takes her readers on journey after journey, as only she can.

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For the first time, a collection of Williams' 33 best short stories are available in a single volume, together with 13 new stories.

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's best living writer of short stories" (NPR), Ninety-Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal, knocking down the barriers between the workaday and the divine.

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Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed...