The Resource The visiting privilege, Joy Williams
The visiting privilege, Joy Williams
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The item The visiting privilege, Joy Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The visiting privilege, Joy Williams represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Stirling Library Services.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Williams's uniquely devastating portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers and writers for decades. Here, for the first time, Williams's 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's 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's career and cements her place as the most singular artist of short fiction writing today
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 490 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
- Isbn
- 9781781257470
- Label
- The visiting privilege
- Title
- The visiting privilege
- Statement of responsibility
- Joy Williams
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Williams's uniquely devastating portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers and writers for decades. Here, for the first time, Williams's 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's 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's career and cements her place as the most singular artist of short fiction writing today
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Joy
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- short stories
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Short stories, American
- Interpersonal relations
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The visiting privilege, Joy Williams
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- Control code
- p2251111026
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 490 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781781257470
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- The visiting privilege, Joy Williams
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- p2251111026
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- 490 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781781257470
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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