Ninety-Nine Stories Of God
by Joy Williams
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 1941040357
- ISBN 13
- 9781941040355
- Seller
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Lemolo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1885
- Title
- Ninety-Nine Stories Of God
- Author
- Joy Williams
- Format/Binding
- Minor scuffing to edges, no DJ from publisher
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1941040357
- ISBN 13
- 9781941040355
- Publisher
- Tin House Books
- Place of Publication
- Portland, Oregon
- Date Published
- 2016-07
- Pages
- 220
- Keywords
- 99 short stories, day to day interactions
- Bookseller catalogs
- religion;
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