Ninety-Nine Stories of God
ISBN-13:
9781941040355
ISBN-10:
1941040357
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Joy Williams
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Tin House Books
Format:
Hardcover
220 pages
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Book details
ISBN-13:
9781941040355
ISBN-10:
1941040357
Edition:
First Edition
Author:
Joy Williams
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
Tin House Books
Format:
Hardcover
220 pages
Summary
Ninety-Nine Stories of God (ISBN-13: 9781941040355 and ISBN-10: 1941040357), written by authors
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A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year at Esquire, Seattle Times, Minnesota Star Tribune, Huffington Post, and Publishers Weekly.
From “quite possibly America’s best living writer of short stories” (NPR), Ninety-Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal, knocking down the barriers between the workaday and the divine.
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.
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