{"product_id":"honored-guest-paperback","title":"Honored Guest - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmong the \"best American short stories of the past two decades\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e) from one of our most acclaimed writers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn short stories \"so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e), a masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways--comic, tragic, and unnerving--we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss, offering a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 poetry of Flannery O'Connor.\" \u003cbr\u003eThese twelve stories further Joy Williams's utterly singular achievement, described by the \"Washington Post as \"poetic, disturbing, yet very funny . . . the brilliantly controlled style informed by a powerful spiritual vision,\" and again reveal her ability to uncover, as Michiko Kakutani wrote in the \"New York Times, \"the somber verities lurking beneath the flash and clamor of daily life.\" \u003cbr\u003eHer landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways-comic, tragic, unnerving-we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. And all of her characters are richly, idiosyncratically alive, in circumstances at once supremely peculiar and strangely like our own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoy Williams is the author of four novels-the most recent, \u003ci\u003eThe Quick and the Dead, \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001-and three other collections of stories, as well as \u003ci\u003eIll Nature, \u003c\/i\u003e a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Among her many honors are the Rea Award for the short story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Key West, Florida, and Tucson, Arizona.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 7.94 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44399452586086,"sku":"9781400095520","price":29.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/QWw1azcwVHVtZWs1UUlGNmF0OHkwdz09.webp?v=1769521948","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/honored-guest-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}