The visiting privilege
Subtitle: new and collected stories
By: Joy Williams
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 490
ISBN-13: 9781101874899; 9781101873717
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Prose literature
Work titles: Short stories
Description: The Legendary Writer's First collection in more than ten years - and finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order. 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 singluar 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 eachy one of them is available here. -- from dust jacket.
Notes: "This is a Borzoi book."
Table of contents: title: Collected stories:; title: Taking care --; title: The lover --; title: Summer --; title: Preparation for a Collie --; title: The wedding --; title: The yard boy --; title: Shepherd --; title: Train --; title: The excursion --; title: Winter chemistry --; title: Shorelines --; title: The farm --; title: Escapes --; title: Rot --; title: The skater --; title: Lu-Lu --; title: The little winter --; title: Health --; title: White --; title: The blue men --; title: The last generation --; title: Honored guest --; title: Congress --; title: Marabou --; title: The visiting privilege --; title: Substance --; title: Charity --; title: Anodyne --; title: ACK --; title: The other week --; title: Hamer --; title: Fortune --; title: Bromeliads --; title: New stories:; title: Brass --; title: The girls --; title: Revenant --; title: The mission --; title: Another season --; title: Dangerous --; title: In the park --; title: Cats and dogs --; title: The bridgetender --; title: Souvenir --; title: The country --; title: The mother call --; title: Craving.