Joy Williams, Author Vintage Books USA $17 (288p) ISBN 978-0-394-75773-5
Although they are renting a house, Willie and Liberty, deeply disturbed drifters, break into Florida vacation homes of the wealthy, ``living the ordered life of someone else . . . inhabiting the space others had made for themselves. For they...
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Joy Williams, Author Alfred A. Knopf $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-679-44646-0
""This was no place to be tonight for any of them, but this was the place they were."" Set in the Texas desert, the first new fiction in 10 years from the much-praised Williams (States of Grace) examines the thoughts and hopes of three motherless 16-
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Joy Williams, Author Lyons Press $24.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-58574-187-8
Sharp, sarcastic and uncompromising, Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of 19 impassioned essays dealing mostly with humans' abuses of the natural world. Two of the collection's strongest essays deal with animal...
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Joy Williams, Author, Robin Desser, Editor Vintage Books USA $11 (168p) ISBN 978-0-679-73331-7
Themes of sickness, lies and death recur here: in the title story, Lizzie and her alcoholic mother entertain illusions of recovery on a trip to a magic show, while ``The Route'' maps a couple's waning love. ``Several of these tales have been...
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Joy Williams, Author . Univ. of Alabama/Fairy Tale Review $16 (256p) ISBN 978-0-9799954-0-8
A scathing 1978 New York Times
review by Anatole Broyard was enough, according to Fairy Tale Review
editor Kate Bernheimer, to knock this second novel by 2001 Pulitzer finalist (for The Quick and the Dead
) and 1974 NBA finalist (for State of...
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Joy Williams, Author Atlantic Monthly Press $18.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-87113-332-8
Accomplished novelist ( Breaking and Entering ) and short-story teller ( Taking Care ) Williams captures in these 12 observant tales--many about sickness, lies and death--the subtle but stunning moments of recognition and/or adjustment that occur...
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Joy Williams, Author . Knopf $23 (213p) ISBN 978-0-679-44647-7
"To live was like being an honored guest," muses a teenage girl whose mother is dying. While death, loss and the likelihood of losing touch with reality are the focus of these 12 short stories by Williams, the elusive possibility of hope and
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Joy Williams. Tin House (Norton, dist.), $19.95 (168p) ISBN 978-1-941040-35-5
In Williams’s hands (The Visiting Privilege), a “story of God” can apparently be almost anything. Her slender new collection includes in its 99 stories pithy flash-fiction pieces about mothers, wives, writers, and dogs, anecdotes from the lives of...
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Joy Williams. Knopf, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-0-525-65756-9
Pulitzer finalist Williams (The Quick and the Dead) returns with a dystopian saga of environmental cataclysm that is by turns triumphant, damning, and beguiling. Sometime in the near future, Khristen is sent to a boarding school in the desert of the
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Joy Williams. Tin House, $22.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-959030-59-1
Williams follows up Ninety-Nine Stories of God with another resonant collection of 99 vignettes, this time centered on themes of environmental destruction and mortality. The entries—none longer than two pages and some as short as a single word—showca
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