Beautiful Days: Stories by Williams, Zach

Beautiful Days: Stories

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 - From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor Zach...
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Author: Zach Williams
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Language: English
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Beautiful Days: Stories by Williams, Zach

Beautiful Days: Stories

$43.19

Beautiful Days: Stories

$43.19
Author: Zach Williams
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024 - From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor Zach Williams comes a striking and savage debut story collection that confronts parenthood, mortality, and life's broken promises.

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, Electric Lit

A couple awakens in a home in the woods to find themselves rapidly aging as their toddler remains unchanged. A work-worn employee navigates conspiracy theories and the threat of violence in an abandoned office. A tour guide leads a troublesome group to an ancient structure, apparently nonhuman in origin, discovering along the way that the most mysterious creatures of all are right beside him.

These ten stories show the fallibility of time and how reality reveals itself behind the gauze of a dream--or a nightmare. Throughout, Williams illustrates how quickly we come to the edges of our patience and endurance, the hidden damages lurking in the shadows of the everyday, the distances we must travel to protect our families, and the tenuousness of even our deepest relationships. Williams sees the perversity in the mundane and dares readers to confront the power--and beauty--of time's relentless movement.

With exquisite prose and a lacerating wit, Beautiful Days holds a mirror to the many absurdities of being human and refuses to let us look away.

Author: Zach Williams
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 06/11/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.59w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780385550147


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/15/2024 pg. 14
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2024
BookPage 05/01/2024
Publishers Weekly 06/24/2024
Shelf Awareness 06/20/2024

About the Author
ZACH WILLIAMS is a Jones Lecturer in Fiction at Stanford University, where he previously held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. His story "Trial Run" was one of three that won The Paris Review a 2023 ASME Award for Fiction. Originally from Wilmington, Delaware, he currently resides with his family in San Francisco.

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