The Visiting Privilege (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | Joy Williams | knygos.lt

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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.

Contents:
COLLECTED STORIES
- Taking Care
- The Lover
- Summer
- Preparation for a Collie
- The Wedding
- The Yard Boy
- Shepherd
- Train
- The Excursion
- Winter Chemistry
- Shorelines
- The Farm
- Escapes
- Rot
- The Skater
- Lu-Lu
- The Little Winter
- Health
- White
- The Blue Men
- The Last Generation
- Honored Guest
- Congress
- Marabou
- The Visiting Privilege
- Substance
- Charity
- Anodyne
- ACK
- The Other Week
- Hammer
- Fortune
- Bromeliads
NEW STORIES
- Brass
- The Girls
- Revenant
- The Mission
- Another Season
- Dangerous
- In the Park
- Cats and Dogs
- The Bridgetender
- Souvenir
- The Country
- The Mother Cell
- Craving