Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Joy Williams$16.96
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Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being.
This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams's characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Tin House
Published: 07/12/2016
ISBN: 9781941040355
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/08/2016
Booklist 04/01/2016 pg. 24
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2016
Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 98
This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams's characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Tin House
Published: 07/12/2016
ISBN: 9781941040355
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 02/08/2016
Booklist 04/01/2016 pg. 24
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2016
Library Journal 09/01/2016 pg. 98