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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
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- Unbranded
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- ISBN
- 1941040357
- Book Title
- Ninety-Nine Stories of God
- Item Length
- 8.1in
- Publisher
- Tin House Books, LLC
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author), Religious, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.4in
- Item Weight
- 9.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 220 Pages
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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's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams's characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Tin House Books, LLC
ISBN-10
1941040357
ISBN-13
9781941040355
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219152632
Product Key Features
Book Title
Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Religious, Literary
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
220 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.1in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
9.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3573.I4496a6 2016
Reviews
Joy Williams's Ninety-Nine Stories of God reads like a blog-era bible as conceived by Borges, Barthelme, and Mark Twain. No writer alive captures the voices in the post-millennial psychic wilderness like Joy Williams., Every Joy Williams publication is a cause for celebration, and Ninety-Nine Stories of God shows Williams in her usual biting, insightful, and darkly humorous form., Wry and playful, except for when densely allusive and willfully obtuse, Ninety-Nine Stories of God is a treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces., Williams addicts will mainline [Ninety-Nine Stories of God]; newcomers should chase the high with last year's The Visiting Privilege., Wry and playful, except for when densely allusive and willfully obtuse, Ninety-Nine Stories of God is a treasure trove of bafflements and tiny masterpieces., "[The stories in Ninety-Nine Stories of God] miniaturize the qualities found in Joy Williams's celebrated short stories: concision, jumped connections, singular details, brutal humor. I say "celebrated" because Williams has been writing stories for forty years, and for forty years her literary peers--from Ann Beattie to Raymond Carver, from James Salter to Don DeLillo--have regarded her work with a kind of Masonic fellow-feeling. Yet she remains, in some ways, a difficult, and certainly an original, writer. She writes at a slight angle to the culture, literary and otherwise. Her fiction is easy to follow and hard to fathom; easy to enjoy and harder to absorb.", Each story, like living tissue, is a reliquary that makes something splendid of our most secret agonies and desires., While Marilynn Robinson (stately, assured) is so often held up as the major Christian believer in American letters, I would argue that, along with Annie Dillard, Joy Williams is the true seeker. Her stories are probes sent out into the universe., [Williams] is ... a master of momentum; the stories in Ninety-Nine Stories of God end and snap, end and snap, their wit yanking you up and dressing you down right when you get a rhythm going., Admirers of Williams--andanyone who treasures astory well told should be one--will find much to like here., Much like the divine, Williams' prose is simple and brutal, thoughtful and haunting. A spare but startling book. , Each story in this collection shoots like a flare over the abyss of our existential dilemma, flashing the briefest light on the depths below and above., The most beguiling book of the summer is this little collection of 99 very short stories about God. The catch is that the brilliantly twisted Joy Williams is behind the stories, which means the Lord finds himself at a hotdog-eating contest or in line for a shingles vaccination. Mayhem, humor, and death mark this transcendent book., Baffling and illuminating, witty and disturbing, these 99 religious-flavored vignettes may not tell you why we are here or where we are going, but they do possess the power to entrance. The divine Joy Williams continues to work in mysterious ways., Admirers of Williams--and anyone who treasures a story well told should be one--will find much to like here., Each story is beautifully strange and meditative in an unexpected but glorious way. . . . Inarguably inspired, Ninety-Nine Stories of God is a devotional for modern cynics and believers alike., [Q]Uietly Splendid. . . . I Believe in Art, Andninety-Nine Stories of God Feels like Prayer to Me., These Stories Are As Full of Surprises As a Noah's Ark Filled with Mystical Beasts, Three of Each., These modern fables and skewed vignettes make the implausible plausible. Compression, as done by Joy Williams, extends the reach of her stories., "[The stories in Ninety-Nine Stories of God] miniaturize the qualities found in Joy Williams's celebrated short stories: concision, jumped connections, singular details, brutal humor. I say "celebrated" because Williams has been writing stories for forty years, and for forty years her literary peers--from Ann Beattie to Raymond Carver, from James Salter to Don DeLillo--have regarded her work with a kind of Masonic fellow-feeling. Yet she remains, in some ways, a difficult, and certainly an original, writer. She writes at a slight angle to the culture, literary and otherwise. Her fiction is easy to follow and hard to fathom; easy to enjoy and harder to absorb.", Every Joy Williams publication is a cause for celebration, and Ninety-Nine Stories of God shows Williams in her usual biting, insightful, and darkly humorous form., These Stories Are As Full of Surprises As a Noah's Ark Filled with Mystical Beasts, Three of Each. , Ninety-Nine Stories of God is gorgeously written, sentence-to-sentence, and arrives in vignettes that are condensed but not constrained, tight but not dry., [T]hese stories are 100% Williams: funny, unsettling, and mysterious, to be puzzled over and enjoyed across multiple readings., I would follow the trail of Joy Williams's words--always beautiful,compelling, and so wise--anywhere they led., Joy Williams's Ninety-Nine Stories of God reads like ablog-era bible as conceived by Borges, Barthelme, andMark Twain. No writer alive captures the voices in thepost-millennial psychic wilderness like Joy Williams., These modern fables and skewed vignettes make the implausibleplausible. Compression, as done by Joy Williams, extendsthe reach of her stories., The word count of this slender, extraordinary collection belies thedensity and combustibility of its contents, their midnight hilarityand edgeless reach. Joy Williams is our feral philosopher., [Williams] is ... a master of momentum; the stories in Ninety-Nine Stories of God end and snap, end and snap, their wit yanking you up and dressing you down right when you get a rhythm going., [Q]Uietly Splendid. . . . I Believe in Art, and Ninety-Nine Stories of God Feels like Prayer to Me., Ninety-Nine Stories of God is gorgeously written, sentence-to-sentence, and arrives in vignettes that are condensed but not constrained, tight but not dry., The word count of this slender, extraordinary collection belies the density and combustibility of its contents, their midnight hilarity and edgeless reach. Joy Williams is our feral philosopher., ""Joy Williams is our contemporary O'Connor with a mix of Protestant sacraments . . . and a Zen Koan consciousness."", Much like the divine, Williams' prose is simple and brutal, thoughtful and haunting. A spare but startling book., [Q]Uietly Splendid. . . . I Believe in Art, and Ninety-Nine Stories of God Feels like Prayer to Me., "Not many writers can launch a premise like "The Lord was in line at the pharmacy counter waiting to get His shingles shot" without falling into gimmickry, but Williams--long known as a master story writer--twists the scenario to an eerily moving effect. In manipulating our most deeply rooted expectations, shooting them through a prism of irony and wonder, she has created a cockeyed book of common prayer.", I would follow the trail of Joy Williams's words--always beautiful, compelling, and so wise--anywhere they led., Sly and wonderful. . . . [Williams is] after some big truths in a few words, stories so short that some of them could fit on Twitter, except they're too smart and not mean enough. , Weirdly soothing . . . The best approach is to read Ninety-Nine Stories of God all in one shot, and then dip in randomly thereafter, at your darkest and dimmest hour, finding solace., Read together, Joy Williams' stories are a humanist manifesto, a celebration of our most mysterious values, desires and prejudices., Williams says more in a page-long scene than most can say in a chapter; it's fitting, then, that her very short collection manages to encompass such an eternal theme with wit and grace., [T]hese stories are 100% Williams: funny, unsettling, and mysterious, to be puzzled over and enjoyed across multiple readings., Williams addicts will mainline [Ninety-Nine Stories of God]; newcomers should chase the high with last year's The Visiting Privilege., Weirdly soothing . . . The best approach is to read Ninety-Nine Stories of God all in one shot, and then dip in randomly thereafter, at your darkest and dimmest hour, finding solace., Sly and wonderful. . . . [Williams is] after some big truths in a few words, stories so short that some of them could fit on Twitter, except they're too smart and not mean enough., A collection of fiction for our fractured times from a modern master -- funny, profound and redemptive., Each story is beautifully strange and meditative in an unexpected but glorious way. . . . Inarguably inspired, Ninety-Nine Stories of God is a devotional for modern cynics and believers alike.
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2016-006741
Dewey Decimal
813.54
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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