The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories

Williams, Joy

ISBN 10: 1101874899 / ISBN 13: 9781101874899

Published by Knopf, 2014

About this Item

This signed first edition has boards quarter bound in green cloth and tan paper. Edges are straight. Top front corner is lightly creased. Spine is uncreased with gold lettering. Text block is square with deckled pages. Binding is firm. 490p. Pale yellow end pages are clean. You can find Williams' personalized inscription in black ink on title page dated 2016. Interior is otherwise unmarked with crisp white pages through out. Matte Dust Jacket is unclipped with straight edges and pointed corners. Bold lettering. Minor creasing at the head and foot of spine.

Seller Inventory # 118873

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1101874899
• ISBN 13: 9781101874899
• Binding: Hardcover. 8vo
• Edition: Signed 1st edition.
• Condition: Very Good.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • FICTION

About this title

Synopsis

The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years—and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order.

Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar. Virtually all American writers have their favorite Joy Williams stories, as do many readers of all ages, and each one of them is available here.

About the Author

JOY WILLIAMS is the author of four novels—the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001—and three other collections of stories, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the Academy in 2008. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming.