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Format: | Commerce Paperback |
| Writer: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication Yr: | 2005 |
| Language: | English | ISBN: | 9781400095520 |
| EAN: | 9781400095520 |
Honored Visitor: Tales Williams, Pleasure
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| Together with her singular model of attractive darkish humor, Pleasure Williams explores the varied ways-comic, tragic, and unnerving–we search to accommodate diminishment and loss. A masseuse breaks her wealthy shopper’s wrist bone, a buddy visits on the hospital lengthy after she is welcome, and a girl surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring scholar. From considered one of our most acclaimed writers, Honored Visitor is a wealthy examination of our capability for transformation and salvation. | |
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| Writer | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| ISBN-10 | 1400095522 |
| ISBN-13 | 9781400095520 |
| eBay Product ID (ePID) | 45594412 |
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| Format | Commerce Paperback |
| Publication Yr | 2005 |
| Language | English |
| Dimensions | |
| Weight | eight.four Oz |
| Width | 5.2in. |
| Peak | zero.6in. |
| Size | 8in. |
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| Dewey Version | 22 |
| Dewey Decimal | Fic |
| Age Stage | Commerce |
| Sequence | Classic Contemporaries Ser. |
| Writer | Pleasure Williams |
| Evaluations | “Stunning. . . . Unsettling. . . . [Contains] among the many finest American quick tales of the previous twenty years.” -“The Atlantic Month-to-month “The quick tales in Pleasure Williams’s” Honored Visitor” are so vibrant and alive they’ve heartbeats, the prose so electrical and dazzling it makes the heartbeat race.” -“Self-importance Truthful “By all means learn, and re-read, these refined and touching and deceptively humorous and typically darkly magical tales.” -“St. Louis Put up-Dispatch “A superb spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor, Pleasure Williams blends mordant wit, uncanny characters, and weirdly acquainted landscapes and locales. . . . By turns these narratives soothe, then shock, then shock with jolts of recognition, recoil, and bare redemption.” -“Elle “Pleasure Williams wastes not a phrase within the tales that she tells. . . . Phenomenally attention-grabbing. . . . Miraculously and intelligently bizarre.” -“Chicago Tribuen “In great, stark aid, Williams provides us a glimpse into this flexibility of the human coronary heart, its marvelous capacity to face up to adversity and accommodate no matter comes subsequent.” -“Los Angeles Occasions Guide Assessment “If Pleasure Williams’s writer made cigarettes relatively than story collections it could be required to slap a shopper warning on her newest assortment, Honored Visitor. . . . [It’s] narcotic-alluring exactly as a result of it’s poisonous, harmful. And Williams is so good she merely has to wave her characters’ melancholia underneath our noses and we crave extra.” -“The Philadelphia Inquirer “Darkly attractive and intuitive. . . . In Williams’s fingers, the inevitability of dying is each poignant and, at occasions, comfortably humorous.” -“Rocky Mountain Information “The sudden is the onlything that may be counted on-other than the creator’s good prose, acerbic humor and implicit biting commentary on the state of our world at this time.” -“Santa Fe New Mexican ” “Captur[es] the informal brutality of on a regular basis life with a mix of grim humor, macabre incident and an ironic eye. . . . There is a thrilling enchantment, a perverse pleasure, in studying Williams’ chilly tackle issues. . . . Fascinating.” -“The Oregonian “Every [story] spins with the searing comedy and blunt drama of the gallows. . . . Williams is a deeply compassionate author, and in these luminous, feeling moments, the specter of one other author from one other century and one other nation rises: Anton Chekhov, the ebook’s honored ghost.” -“Time Out New York “Pleasure Williams’s assortment is an engrossing and perceptive work.” -“Richmond Occasions-Dispatch “[Williams] balances horror and humor with uncanny ability and laces her tales with compassion. . . . Her tales stick within the thoughts like burrs.” -“The Columbus Dispatch “[A] darkly humorous, potent assortment.” -“Anniston Star “There may be a lot artistry to be discovered within the quick story. . . . Particularly when it’s within the fingers of an artist like Pleasure Williams.” -“Tulsa World “Of the numerous qualities of her prose-clarity, economic system, intelligence, full mastery of the sentence-the most conspicuous is authority. . . . Pleasure Williams’s tales are illuminating, burning, clever and huge.” -“Books and Tradition, “Stunning. . . . Unsettling. . . . [Contains] among the many finest American quick tales of the previous twenty years.” The Atlantic Month-to-month “The quick tales in Pleasure Williams’sHonored Guestare so vibrant and alive they’ve heartbeats, the prose so electrical and dazzling it makes the heartbeat race.” Self-importance Truthful “By all means learn, and re-read, these refined and touching and deceptively humorous and typically darkly magical tales.” St. Louis Put up-Dispatch “A superb spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor, Pleasure Williams blends mordant wit, uncanny characters, and weirdly acquainted landscapes and locales. . . . By turns these narratives soothe, then shock, then shock with jolts of recognition, recoil, and bare redemption.” Elle “Pleasure Williams wastes not a phrase within the tales that she tells. . . . Phenomenally attention-grabbing. . . . Miraculously and intelligently bizarre.” Chicago Tribuen “In great, stark aid, Williams provides us a glimpse into this flexibility of the human coronary heart, its marvelous capacity to face up to adversity and accommodate no matter comes subsequent.” Los Angeles Occasions Guide Assessment “If Pleasure Williams’s writer made cigarettes relatively than story collections it could be required to slap a shopper warning on her newest assortment,Honored Visitor. . . . [It’s] narcoticalluring exactly as a result of it’s poisonous, harmful. And Williams is so good she merely has to wave her characters’ melancholia underneath our noses and we crave extra.” The Philadelphia Inquirer “Darkly attractive and intuitive. . . . In Williams’s fingers, the inevitability of dying is each poignant and, at occasions, comfortably humorous.” Rocky Mountain Information “The sudden is the one factor that may be counted onother than the creator’s good prose, acerbic humor and implicit biting commentary on the state of our world at this time.” Santa Fe New Mexican “Captur[es] the informal brutality of on a regular basis life with a mix of grim humor, macabre incident and an ironic eye. . . . There is a thrilling enchantment, a perverse pleasure, in studying Williams’ chilly tackle issues. . . . Fascinating.” The Oregonian “Every [story] spins with the searing comedy and blunt drama of the gallows. . . . Williams is a deeply compassionate author, and in these luminous, feeling moments, the specter of one other author from one other century and one other nation rises: Anton Chekhov, the ebook’s honored ghost.” Time Out New York “Pleasure Williams’s assortment is an engrossing and perceptive work.” Richmond Occasions-Dispatch “[Williams] balances horror and humor with uncanny ability and laces her tales with compassion. . . . Her tales stick within the thoughts like burrs.” The Columbus Dispatch “[A] darkly humorous, potent assortment.” Anniston Star “There may be a lot artistry to be discovered within the quick story. . . . Particularly when it’s within the fingers of an artist like Pleasure Williams.” Tulsa World “Of the numerous qualities of her proseclarity, economic system, intelligence, full mastery of the sentencethe most conspicuous is authority. . . . Pleasure Williams’s tales are illuminating, burning, clever and huge.” Books and Tradition, “Stunning. . . . Unsettling. . . . [Contains] among the many finest American quick tales of the previous twenty years.” – The Atlantic Month-to-month “The quick tales in Pleasure Williams’s Honored Visitor are so vibrant and alive they’ve heartbeats, the prose so electrical and dazzling it makes the heartbeat race.” – Self-importance Truthful “By all means learn, and re-read, these refined and touching and deceptively humorous and typically darkly magical tales.” – St. Louis Put up-Dispatch “A superb spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor, Pleasure Williams blends mordant wit, uncanny characters, and weirdly acquainted landscapes and locales. . . . By turns these narratives soothe, then shock, then shock with jolts of recognition, recoil, and bare redemption.” – Elle “Pleasure Williams wastes not a phrase within the tales that she tells. . . . Phenomenally attention-grabbing. . . . Miraculously and intelligently bizarre.” – Chicago Tribune “In great, stark aid, Williams provides us a glimpse into this flexibility of the human coronary heart, its marvelous capacity to face up to adversity and accommodate no matter comes subsequent.” – Los Angeles Occasions Guide Assessment “If Pleasure Williams’s writer made cigarettes relatively than story collections it could be required to slap a shopper warning on her newest assortment, Honored Visitor . . . . [It’s] narcotic-alluring exactly as a result of it’s poisonous, harmful. And Williams is so good she merely has to wave her characters’ melancholia underneath our noses and we crave extra.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer “Darkly attractive and intuitive. . . . In Williams’s fingers, the inevitability of dying is each poignant and, at occasions, comfortably humorous.” – Rocky Mountain Information “The sudden is the one factor that may be counted on-other than the creator’s good prose, acerbic humor and implicit biting commentary on the state of our world at this time.” – Santa Fe New Mexican “Captur[es] the informal brutality of on a regular basis life with a mix of grim humor, macabre incident and an ironic eye. . . . There is a thrilling enchantment, a perverse pleasure, in studying Williams’ chilly tackle issues. . . . Fascinating.” – The Oregonian “Every [story] spins with the searing comedy and blunt drama of the gallows. . . . Williams is a deeply compassionate author, and in these luminous, feeling moments, the specter of one other author from one other century and one other nation rises: Anton Chekhov, the ebook’s honored ghost.” – Time Out New York “Pleasure Williams’s assortment is an engrossing and perceptive work.” – Richmond Occasions-Dispatch “[Williams] balances horror and humor with uncanny ability and laces her tales with compassion. . . . Her tales stick within the thoughts like burrs.” – The Columbus Dispatch “[A] darkly humorous, potent assortment.” – Anniston Star “There may be a lot artistry to be discovered within the quick story. . . . Particularly when it’s within the fingers of an artist like Pleasure Williams.” – Tulsa World “Of the numerous qualities of her prose-clarity, economic system, intelligence, full mastery of the sentence-the most conspicuous is authority. . . . Pleasure Williams’s tales are illuminating, burning, clever and huge.” – Books and Tradition, “Stunning. . . . Unsettling. . . . [Contains] among the many finest American quick tales of the previous twenty years.” The Atlantic Month-to-month “The quick tales in Pleasure Williams’s Honored Visitor are so vibrant and alive they’ve heartbeats, the prose so electrical and dazzling it makes the heartbeat race.” Self-importance Truthful “By all means learn, and re-read, these refined and touching and deceptively humorous and typically darkly magical tales.” St. Louis Put up-Dispatch “A superb spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor, Pleasure Williams blends mordant wit, uncanny characters, and weirdly acquainted landscapes and locales. . . . By turns these narratives soothe, then shock, then shock with jolts of recognition, recoil, and bare redemption.” Elle “Pleasure Williams wastes not a phrase within the tales that she tells. . . . Phenomenally attention-grabbing. . . . Miraculously and intelligently bizarre.” Chicago Tribuen “In great, stark aid, Williams provides us a glimpse into this flexibility of the human coronary heart, its marvelous capacity to face up to adversity and accommodate no matter comes subsequent.” Los Angeles Occasions Guide Assessment “If Pleasure Williams’s writer made cigarettes relatively than story collections it could be required to slap a shopper warning on her newest assortment, Honored Visitor. . . . [It’s] narcoticalluring exactly as a result of it’s poisonous, harmful. And Williams is so good she merely has to wave her characters’ melancholia underneath our noses and we crave extra.” The Philadelphia Inquirer “Darkly attractive and intuitive. . . . In Williams’s fingers, the inevitability of dying is each poignant and, at occasions, comfortably humorous.” Rocky Mountain Information “The sudden is the one factor that may be counted onother than the creator’s good prose, acerbic humor and implicit biting commentary on the state of our world at this time.” Santa Fe New Mexican “Captur[es] the informal brutality of on a regular basis life with a mix of grim humor, macabre incident and an ironic eye. . . . There is a thrilling enchantment, a perverse pleasure, in studying Williams’ chilly tackle issues. . . . Fascinating.” The Oregonian “Every [story] spins with the searing comedy and blunt drama of the gallows. . . . Williams is a deeply compassionate author, and in these luminous, feeling moments, the specter of one other author from one other century and one other nation rises: Anton Chekhov, the ebook’s honored ghost.” Time Out New York “Pleasure Williams’s assortment is an engrossing and perceptive work.” Richmond Occasions-Dispatch “[Williams] balances horror and humor with uncanny ability and laces her tales with compassion. . . . Her tales stick within the thoughts like burrs.” The Columbus Dispatch “[A] darkly humorous, potent assortment.” Anniston Star “There may be a lot artistry to be discovered within the quick story. . . . Particularly when it’s within the fingers of an artist like Pleasure Williams.” Tulsa World “Of the numerous qualities of her proseclarity, economic system, intelligence, full mastery of the sentencethe most conspicuous is authority. . . . Pleasure Williams’s tales are illuminating, burning, clever and huge.” Books and Tradition, “Stunning. . . . Unsettling. . . . [Contains] among the many finest American quick tales of the previous twenty years.” The Atlantic Month-to-month “The quick tales in Pleasure Williams’s Honored Visitor are so vibrant and alive they’ve heartbeats, the prose so electrical and dazzling it makes the heartbeat race.” Self-importance Truthful “By all means learn, and re-read, these refined and touching and deceptively humorous and typically darkly magical tales.” St. Louis Put up-Dispatch “A superb spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O’Connor, Pleasure Williams blends mordant wit, uncanny characters, and weirdly acquainted landscapes and locales. . . . By turns these narratives soothe, then shock, then shock with jolts of recognition, recoil, and bare redemption.” Elle “Pleasure Williams wastes not a phrase within the tales that she tells. . . . Phenomenally attention-grabbing. . . . Miraculously and intelligently bizarre.” Chicago Tribuen “In great, stark aid, Williams provides us a glimpse into this flexibility of the human coronary heart, its marvelous capacity to face up to adversity and accommodate no matter comes subsequent.” Los Angeles Occasions Guide Assessment “If Pleasure Williams’s writer made cigarettes relatively than story collections it could be required to slap a shopper warning on her newest assortment, Honored Visitor . . . . [It’s] narcoticalluring exactly as a result of it’s poisonous, harmful. And Williams is so good she merely has to wave her characters’ melancholia underneath our noses and we crave extra.” The Philadelphia Inquirer “Darkly attractive and intuitive. . . . In Williams’s fingers, the inevitability of dying is each poignant and, at occasions, comfortably humorous.” Rocky Mountain Information “The sudden is the one factor that may be counted onother than the creator’s good prose, acerbic humor and implicit biting commentary on the state of our world at this time.” Santa Fe New Mexican “Captur[es] the informal brutality of on a regular basis life with a mix of grim humor, macabre incident and an ironic eye. . . . There is a thrilling enchantment, a perverse pleasure, in studying Williams’ chilly tackle issues. . . . Fascinating.” The Oregonian “Every [story] spins with the searing comedy and blunt drama of the gallows. . . . Williams is a deeply compassionate author, and in these luminous, feeling moments, the specter of one other author from one other century and one other nation rises: Anton Chekhov, the ebook’s honored ghost.” Time Out New York “Pleasure Williams’s assortment is an engrossing and perceptive work.” Richmond Occasions-Dispatch “[Williams] balances horror and humor with uncanny ability and laces her tales with compassion. . . . Her tales stick within the thoughts like burrs.” The Columbus Dispatch “[A] darkly humorous, potent assortment.” Anniston Star “There may be a lot artistry to be discovered within the quick story. . . . Particularly when it’s within the fingers of an artist like Pleasure Williams.” Tulsa World “Of the numerous qualities of her proseclarity, economic system, intelligence, full mastery of the sentencethe most conspicuous is authority. . . . Pleasure Williams’s tales are illuminating, burning, clever and huge.” Books and Tradition |
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