99 Stories of God
Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: 1 volume (unpaged) ; 21 cm
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.
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.
Other Authors:
Williams, Joy, 1944- Postcard.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Noche.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Aubade.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Cavity.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Nevertheless.
Williams, Joy, 1944- See that you remember.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Not his best.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Hedgehog.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Clean.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Wet.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Postcard.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Noche.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Aubade.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Cavity.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Nevertheless.
Williams, Joy, 1944- See that you remember.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Not his best.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Hedgehog.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Clean.
Williams, Joy, 1944- Wet.
ISBN:
9781941040355 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Williams | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |
INSPIR Williams | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Inspirational | In |
INSPIR Williams | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Inspirational | In |