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by Joy Williams

2004American Domestic fictionConflict of generationsDomestic fiction, AmericanFictionParent and adult child
4.0
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"Joy Williams's 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Themes & subjects

American Domestic fictionConflict of generationsDomestic fiction, AmericanFictionParent and adult childFiction, short stories (single author)
First published 2004

About the author

Joy Williams
Joy Williams

1944

**Joy Williams** (born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her notable works of fiction include State of Grace, The Changeling, and Harrow. Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea Award for the Short Story, a Kirkus Award for Fiction, and a Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. -Wikipedia

Author

Joy Williams

First published

2004

Pages

213

Read time

≈ 5h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

Knopf

ISBN

9781400095520

Where to buy

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