The Visiting Privilege by Joy Williams
If you've never read Joy Williams, you've never read anyone like Joy Williams.
How to tell the story of a 500-page collection of stories spanning more than 40 years? Especially when I really want to just exclaim, "Oh, Oh, OH!" in a state of steadily mounting rapture -- Geoff Dyer * Observer *
The Visiting Privilege is an electric and dangerously human volumeNot making sense, and making too much sense, is Williams's alarming territory. You will probably do what I did afterwards, and order her old novels from America ... Cheever would have liked her Breaking and Entering in particular. -- Philip Hensher * The Spectator *
The Visiting Privilege cements Williams's position not merely as one of the great writers of her generation, but as our pre-eminent bard of humanity's insignificance * New York Times Magazine *
Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over * Vanity Fair *
Williams is a flawless writer, and The Visiting Privilege is a perfect book ... the rare collection that doesn't have a single story, even a single paragraph, that's less than brilliant * NPR *
One of the most fearless, abyss-embracing literary projects our literature has seen ... ruthless, hilarious work that holds our human folly to the fire ... you can't much pin Joy Williams down with any obvious dark masters. She is American and contemporary and strange, comfortable in the skin of domestic realism, even if that mode is a kind of misleading costume for a far more sinister project not often seen in American, or any, short fiction -- Ben Marcus * New York Times Book Review *
Deep, dazzling, disconcerting -- Adam Foulds
Dark, funny, spare and unsparing ... wonderful ... Williams is fully alive to the tragicomedy of our transient lives. -- Eithne Farry * Sunday Express *
Joy Williams is a stone-cold 100% American original ... [TVP] is a treasure trove of high-octane prose and surreal wit. -- Rupert Thomson * Observer *
Revisiting the edgy, perceptive, provocative stories of Joy Williams make The Visiting Privilege a celebration. From the opening story, 'Taking Care', Williams confirms her ironic pathos and consummate timing, and rarely falters. -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
Williams's short stories portray the edges of modern life in vivid, staccato detail and make for compelling reading. The narrative threads move forward in unpredictable, exciting and often unsettling detail. * Guardian, readers' BOTY 2016 *
Perfectly crafted short stories. -- Wendy Ide * The Observer *
The Visiting Privilege is an electric and dangerously human volumeNot making sense, and making too much sense, is Williams's alarming territory. You will probably do what I did afterwards, and order her old novels from America ... Cheever would have liked her Breaking and Entering in particular. -- Philip Hensher * The Spectator *
The Visiting Privilege cements Williams's position not merely as one of the great writers of her generation, but as our pre-eminent bard of humanity's insignificance * New York Times Magazine *
Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over * Vanity Fair *
Williams is a flawless writer, and The Visiting Privilege is a perfect book ... the rare collection that doesn't have a single story, even a single paragraph, that's less than brilliant * NPR *
One of the most fearless, abyss-embracing literary projects our literature has seen ... ruthless, hilarious work that holds our human folly to the fire ... you can't much pin Joy Williams down with any obvious dark masters. She is American and contemporary and strange, comfortable in the skin of domestic realism, even if that mode is a kind of misleading costume for a far more sinister project not often seen in American, or any, short fiction -- Ben Marcus * New York Times Book Review *
Deep, dazzling, disconcerting -- Adam Foulds
Dark, funny, spare and unsparing ... wonderful ... Williams is fully alive to the tragicomedy of our transient lives. -- Eithne Farry * Sunday Express *
Joy Williams is a stone-cold 100% American original ... [TVP] is a treasure trove of high-octane prose and surreal wit. -- Rupert Thomson * Observer *
Revisiting the edgy, perceptive, provocative stories of Joy Williams make The Visiting Privilege a celebration. From the opening story, 'Taking Care', Williams confirms her ironic pathos and consummate timing, and rarely falters. -- Eileen Battersby * Irish Times *
Williams's short stories portray the edges of modern life in vivid, staccato detail and make for compelling reading. The narrative threads move forward in unpredictable, exciting and often unsettling detail. * Guardian, readers' BOTY 2016 *
Perfectly crafted short stories. -- Wendy Ide * The Observer *
Joy Williams is the author of four novels - the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 - and three 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. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781781257463 |
| ISBN 10 | 1781257469 |
| Title | The Visiting Privilege |
| Author | Joy Williams |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-11-03 |
| Number of pages | 512 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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