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The Changeling

Joy Williams

When we first meet Pearl - young in years but advanced in her drinking - she's sitting at a hotel bar in Florida throwing back gin and tonics. Cradled in the crook of her arm is her infant son. But the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband and the Northeastern island his family calls home doesn't last for long. Soon she's being shepherded back. The island for Pearl is a place of madness and pain and her drinking might dull the latter but it spurs on the former.

Through the lens of Pearl's fragile consciousness readers encounter the horror and triumph of both childhood and motherhood. With language that flits between exuberance and elegy the plainspoken and the poetic Joy Williams has created a modern fairy-tale entirely original and entirely consuming.

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  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : SEP 6, 2018
  • Imprint : Tuskar Rock
  • Page Extent : 352
  • Binding : HB
  • ISBN : 9781788161343
  • Price : INR 955
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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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