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Fiction. "Williams's miniatures cast long shadows, while offering
unexpected meanings to the light which edges them" (Bradford
Morrow). In these "miniatures, " Williams takes the choicest bits
of description, tense, and poetic language, and crafts of them a
dense and multifaceted languages: "Thank goodness I am deeply
sincere, so I stopped laughing. He had dragged me along to this
refined filth of a hotel, which aroused my truest false feeling. On
the way to the hotel, he was staggering and I was. If my wish is at
last coming true, he is going to spring on me something that will
make me fell as helpless as a human being" ("Speech").
Famous for her works of "flash fiction" which capture life,
love, and contradiction in a single page, Diane Williams continues
to forge her own innovative tradition in this new collection.
Including over three dozen short stories along with three novellas,
Romancer Erector is her boldest collection to date. Here she once
again astonishes us with her distinctive voice, detached yet
fiercely intimate. As one critic writes: "the effect is original,
as if a strange little memory has insinuated itself into the
reader's own memory, to remain there...incapable of assimilation."
Like intricately wrapped gifts, these tales deliver the hidden, the
haunted, the charms, the bell, the mansions inside of the human
heart.
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Book Two - Steve
Diane Williams Doyle
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R539
Discovery Miles 5 390
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‘The writer who saved my life — or my soul.’ Merve
Emre, The New Yorker ‘A true living hero of the American
avant-garde.’ Jonathan Franzen ‘One of the very few
contemporary prose writers who seem to be doing something
independent, energetic, heartfelt.’ Lydia Davis A new collection
of stories from the ‘godmother of flash fiction’ (The Paris
Review). In Williams’ stories, life is newly alive and dangerous;
whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an
afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from
one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new
ways of seeing everyday life. In perfectly honed sentences, with a
sly and occasionally wild wit, Williams shows us how any moment of
any day can open onto disappointment, pleasure, and possibility.
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