The Visiting Privilege
Title | The Visiting Privilege PDF eBook |
Author | Joy Williams |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 511 |
Release | 2015-09-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101874902 |
The definitive story collection “by one of the most celebrated American short-story writers…. Powerful, important, compassionate, and full of dark humor. This is a book that will be reread with admiration and love many times over” (Vanity Fair). Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. At long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar. Virtually all American writers have their favorite Joy Williams stories, as do many readers of all ages, and each one of them is available here.
Attrib. and Other Stories
Title | Attrib. and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Eley Williams |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 107 |
Release | 2021-05-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593312368 |
"It's just the real inexplicable gorgeous brilliant thing this book. I love it in a way I usually reserve for people." --Max Porter A dazzling, prizewinning short story collection that showcases a bold new talent Eley Williams has been a literary sensation ever since this collection of experimental short fiction was published in the UK. Lauded as "elegant" (The Guardian) and "exhilarating" (Vanity Fair), Attrib. and Other Stories won the James Tait Black Prize, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and was named a best book of the year by The Guardian. Attrib. presents a cast of unforgettable characters standing at the precipice of emotional events (a disastrous breakup, a successful date, an unexpected arrival) and finding it fiendishly impossible to express themselves. With intimate, irreverent, and playful prose, Eley Williams rejoices in both the possibilities and limitations of language, as well as the very human need to be known and understood--despite our own best efforts. Original and inventive in the vein of Lydia Davis, Deborah Eisenberg, and Amy Hempel, these stories are "emotionally delicate and tenderly introspective" (New Statesman) and "an absolute must-read" (The London Magazine).
Go with the Flow
Title | Go with the Flow PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Schneemann |
Publisher | First Second |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2020-01-14 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250771102 |
High school students embark on a crash course of friendship, female empowerment, and women's health issues in Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann's graphic novel Go With the Flow. Good friends help you go with the flow. Best friends help you start a revolution. Sophomores Abby, Brit, Christine, and Sasha are fed up. Hazelton High never has enough tampons. Or pads. Or adults who will listen. Sick of an administration that puts football before female health, the girls confront a world that shrugs—or worse, squirms—at the thought of a menstruation revolution. They band together to make a change. It’s no easy task, especially while grappling with everything from crushes to trig to JV track but they have each other’s backs. That is, until one of the girls goes rogue, testing the limits of their friendship and pushing the friends to question the power of their own voices. Now they must learn to work together to raise each other up. But how to you stand your ground while raising bloody hell?
The Case of the HIDDEN SHOE
Title | The Case of the HIDDEN SHOE PDF eBook |
Author | Toby A. Williams |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2021-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781735422916 |
STAR of Award-Winning children's books, Brooke Lynn, has blossomed into a thriving pre-teen...Middle-grader Brooke Lynn is curious - a new housing development is being built in her sleepy town. Rumors spread about the new homeowners and sightings of celebrities. This is the perfect chance for her, and crime-busting pal Mike, to explore. Scoping out the development, the two kids stumble upon a mysterious item, a red-stained shoe hidden within a building. Why is it there? What is the stain? And, most importantly, who does it belong to, and are they OK? A new mystery awaits the two sleuths and The Case of the Hidden Shoe begins...But it's not just the housing development that is making Brooke Lynn curious. Mike has changed, her best friend Susie seems different, and her parents are getting strict! Yikes! Will she be able to get to the bottom of not only the hidden shoe but also the changes in her life?"This cozy, exciting mystery, full of pre-teen angst, will have you guessing until the end.""I fell in love with Brooke Lynn from the onset. I cried and laughed with empathy! The twists throughout the story compelled me to search for clues as I turned each page. A fast-paced, entertaining read for all pre-teens!" Sue Campion, Author, Poet & Editor.Grab a copy today; this is a terrific book for any young detective's reading shelf. And follow the author for future updates to this series. www.tobyawilliamsauthor.com
The Collected Stories of Diane Williams
Title | The Collected Stories of Diane Williams PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Williams |
Publisher | Soho Press |
Pages | 785 |
Release | 2018-10-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1616959835 |
With over three hundred new and previously published short stories as well as three novellas, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together distilled works of “unsettling brilliance” (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of American short fiction. From Ben Marcus’ introduction to The Collected Stories of Diane Williams: “Diane Williams has spent her long, prolific career concocting fictions of perfect strangeness, most of them no more than a page long. She’s a hero of the form: the sudden fiction, the flash fiction, whatever it’s being called these days. The stories are short. They defy logic. They thumb their nose at conventional sense, or even unconventional sense. But if sense is in short supply in these texts, that leaves more room for splendor and sorrow. These stories upend expectations and prize enigma and the uncanny above all else. The Williams epiphany should be patented, or bottled—on the other hand, it should also be regulated and maybe rationed, because it’s severe. It’s a rare feeling her stories trigger, but it’s a keen and deep and welcome one, the sort of feeling that wakes us up to complication and beauty and dissonance and fragility.”
Overseas
Title | Overseas PDF eBook |
Author | Beatriz Williams |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 527 |
Release | 2012-05-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101584904 |
Experience a love that transcends time in this sensation debut novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives and Husbands & Lovers. Amiens, France, 1916: Captain Julian Ashford, a British officer in the trenches of the Western Front, is waylaid in the town square by Kate, a beautiful young American. Julian’s never seen her before, but she has information about the reconnaissance mission he’s about to embark on. Who is she? And why did she track him down in Amiens? New York, 2007: A young Wall Street analyst, Kate Wilson learned to rely on logic and cynicism. So why does she fall so desperately in love with Julian Laurence, a billionaire with a mysterious past? What she doesn’t know is that he has been waiting for her...the enchanting woman who emerged from the shadows of the Great War to save his life.
Noon 2021
Title | Noon 2021 PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Barrett |
Publisher | |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2021-03-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780967621111 |
NOON is a literary annual. According to the New York Times, NOON is "erudite, elegant and stubbornly experimental." This year's features include fiction by Souvankham Thammavongsa, 2020 Giller Prize winner; the first and only published fiction by British psychoanalyst and essayist Adam Phillips; journal entries from Lydia Davis; and other stories by acclaimed and emerging voices.