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The Visiting Privilege
Joy Williams
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Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
'How to tell the story of a 500-page collection of stories spanning more than forty years? Especially when I really want to just exclaim, "Oh, Oh, OH!" in a state of steadily mounting rapture'
Geoff Dyer, Observer
Williams' uniquely devastating portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers and writers for decades. Here, for the first time, Williams' thirty-three best stories are available in a single volume, together with thirteen new stories that show a writer continuing to mould the form into something strange and new.
Bleak but funny, real but surreal, domestic but dangerous, familiar but enigmatic, Joy Williams' stories fray away the fabric at the edge of ordinary experience to reveal the loneliness at the heart of human life.
In 'The Lover', a girl suffers a spiritual and physical wasting away; in 'The Visiting Privilege', a visitor finds refuge in her friend's psychiatric ward; in 'Charity', a woman gives a poor family gas money and finds herself marooned in their peculiar world; in 'Another Season' an itinerant man cleanses an island of roadkill; in 'Craving' an alcoholic couple head towards a car crash.
The Visiting Privilege represents the culmination of Williams' career and cements her place as the most singular artist of short fiction writing today.
Rezensionen
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Williams is a flawless writer, and <i>The Visiting Privilege</i> is a perfect book
Revisiting the edgy, perceptive, provocative stories of Joy Williams make <i>The Visiting Privilege</i> a celebration. From the opening story, 'Taking Care'
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, <i>Oh, OH</i>!"
She belongs in the company of Céline and Flannery O'
The bright-bleak grand master of short stories
The literary heir to Anton Chekhov
Joy Williams is a stone-cold 100% American original ... a treasure trove of high-octane prose and surreal wit
How had Joy Williams been missing from my life for so long? What a writer. What a voice. What a way of seeing.
Deep, dazzling, disconcerting
Perhaps the greatest living master of the short story ... easily taking her place among the ranks of Mavis Gallant, Flannery O'
<i>The Visiting Privilege </i>cements Williams's position not merely as one of the great writers of her generation, but as our pre-eminent bard of humanity'
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'
Joy Williams is simply a wonder
One of the great American short story writers
An electric and dangerously human volume
Dark, funny, spare and unsparing ... wonderful ... Williams is fully alive to the tragicomedy of our transient lives.
Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over
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