Honored Guest by Joy Williams

Honored Guest by Joy Williams

The first collection of stories in well over a decade by a writer Ann Beattie has called one of our most remarkable storytellers, and whom Bret Easton Ellis has named the rightful heir to the mastery, genius, and poetry of Flannery O'Connor.
These twelve stories further Joy Williams's utterly singular achievement, described by the Washington Post as poetic, disturbing, yet very funny . . . the brilliantly controlled style informed by a powerful spiritual vision, and again reveal her ability to uncover, as Michiko Kakutani wrote in the New York Times, the somber verities lurking beneath the flash and clamor of daily life.
Her landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways-comic, tragic, unnerving-we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. And all of her characters are richly, idiosyncratically alive, in circumstances at once supremely peculiar and strangely like our own.

From the Hardcover edition.

Joy Williams is the author of novels, short story collections, and Ill Nature, a collection of essays that was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. In 2001, her novel The Quick and the Dead was a Pulitzer Prize runner-up. Among her many awards are the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Rea Prize for Short Fiction and the Strauss Living Fund. In 2008, she was elected to the Academy. Williams splits his time between Tucson and Laramie, Wyoming.

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ISBN 13	9780679446477
ISBN 10	0679446478
Title	Honored Guest
Author	Joy Williams
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2004-10-05
Number of pages	213
Prizes	Commended for L.A. Times Book Prize (Fiction) 2004
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