Джой Уильямс

Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In "Ninety-Nine Stories of God", she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It&#...

Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapes−in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern col...

From one of our most heralded writers--Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Celine, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood"--her first novel in more than a decade: the life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert. Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, a...

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast-disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution-related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched forests, and violence both home and abroad. Joy Williams does more than watch. In this collection of condemnations and love letters, revelations and cries for help, she brings to light the price of complacency with scathing wit a...

Ivy Carson belonged to the notorious Carson family, which lived in a run-down house in suburban Rosewood. But Ivy was not a typical Carson. There was something wonderful about her. Ivy explained it by saying that she was a changeling, a child of supernatural parents who had been exchanged for the real Ivy Carson at birth. This classic book was first published in 1970. It was awarded a Christopher ...

Book DescriptionThe first collection of stories in well over a decade by a writer Ann Beattie has called ?one of our most remarkable storytellers,? and whom Bret Easton Ellis has named ?the rightful heir to the mastery, genius, and

Перл - молодая жена и мать - теряет в авиакатастрофе мужа и остаётся жить с его семьёй на острове. Население острова невелико: брат мужа, его странная жена, опустившийся профессор и дюжина детей. Детей ли? Джой Уильямс - номинант Пулитцеровской премии, виртуозный мастер слова и гений-мыслитель, чей роман "Подменыш" вышел в 1978 году и сильно опередил своё время. "Джой Уильямс - это такой "Стоунер...