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The Visiting Privilege (Paperback, Main)
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The Visiting Privilege (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R291
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'How to tell the story of a 500-page collection of stories spanning
more than forty years? Especially when I really want to just
exclaim, "Oh, Oh, OH!" in a state of steadily mounting rapture'
Geoff Dyer, Observer Williams' uniquely devastating portrayals of
modern life have been captivating readers and writers for decades.
Here, for the first time, Williams' thirty-three best stories are
available in a single volume, together with thirteen new stories
that show a writer continuing to mould the form into something
strange and new. Bleak but funny, real but surreal, domestic but
dangerous, familiar but enigmatic, Joy Williams' stories fray away
the fabric at the edge of ordinary experience to reveal the
loneliness at the heart of human life. In 'The Lover', a girl
suffers a spiritual and physical wasting away; in 'The Visiting
Privilege', a visitor finds refuge in her friend's psychiatric
ward; in 'Charity', a woman gives a poor family gas money and finds
herself marooned in their peculiar world; in 'Another Season' an
itinerant man cleanses an island of roadkill; in 'Craving' an
alcoholic couple head towards a car crash. The Visiting Privilege
represents the culmination of Williams' career and cements her
place as the most singular artist of short fiction writing today.
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