Ninety-Nine Stories of God

Description: Ninety-Nine Stories of God [Hardcover] Williams, Joy Product Overview A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of the Year at Esquire, Seattle Times, Minnesota Star Tribune, Huffington Post, and Publishers Weekly. From “quite possibly America’s best living writer of short stories” (NPR), Ninety- Nine Stories of God finds Joy Williams reeling between the sublime and the surreal, knocking down the barriers between the workaday and the divine.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. Read more Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tin House Books; First Edition (July 12, 2016) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 220 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1941040357 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 55 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.7 x 8.1 inches Best Sellers Rank: #553,509 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,124 in Dark Humor #11,965 in Short Stories (Books) #28,552 in Literary Fiction (Books) #1,124 in Dark Humor #11,965 in Short Stories (Books) Quality Products This will be shipped securely Returns must be within 30 days - item EXACTLY as it was sent. Must have tracking number. Email us with any issues/questions. Thanks for looking! Fast and Free Shipping Shipping is free for this item. We get your order shipped out and delivered to your doorstep as quickly as possible. Commitment We are committed to making sure that you leave this transaction satisfied. That means having access to real people that get your questions and concerns answered quickly. Give us a shot and we will make sure that you will look to us again!

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