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Ninety-Nine Stories of God

Joy Williams

At a hot-dog-eating contest or at a demolition derby, in line at the pharmacy counter waiting for a shingles vaccination, living in a cave with a colony of bats: the Almighty appears in ever-more mysterious ways in Ninety-Nine Stories of God, Joy Williams' surreal, sublime new collection of very short short stories. Each less than a page long, each packing a punch belied by its size, every one of these ninety-nine stories tells of everyday human interaction with an increasingly elusive and arbitrary deity.

Haunted by an array of extraordinary historical figures, from Kafka and Tolstoy to O. J. Simpson and Philip K. Dick, but populated by anonymous ordinary people just like you and me, the stories pool seemingly random moments into something deep, dazzling and disconcerting. Bleak and funny, ironic and lyrical, enigmatic and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God breaks down the barriers between the everyday and the divine and takes Williams' writing into territories strange and new.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : MAY 4, 2017
  • Imprint : Tuskar Rock
  • Page Extent : 160
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781781258804
  • Price : INR 715
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Joy Williams

Joy Williams is the author of four novels - the most recent The Quick and the Dead was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 - and three collections of stories as well as Ill Nature a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honours are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Tucson Arizona and Laramie Wyoming.

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