The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams

The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams

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 singular 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 each one of them is available here.

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	9781101874899
ISBN 10	1101874899
Title	The Visiting Privilege
Author	Joy Williams
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2015-09-08
Number of pages	512
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