{"product_id":"honored-guest-9781400095520","title":"Honored Guest","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn short stories \"so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race\" (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e), Joy Williams explores the various ways we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss, offering a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beautiful.... Unsettling.... [Contains] among the best American short stories.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human travail, from children confronting the death of a parent to parents instead burying their own young, and the various ways-comic, tragic, unnerving-we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. And all of her characters are richly, idiosyncratically alive, in circumstances at once supremely peculiar and strangely like our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joy Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.94h x 5.30w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400095520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoy Williams is the author of four novels-the most recent, \u003ci\u003eThe Quick and the Dead, \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001-and three other collections of stories, as well as \u003ci\u003eIll Nature, \u003c\/i\u003e a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. 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 lives in Key West, Florida, and Tucson, Arizona.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Joy Williams \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47659117346973,"sku":"9781400095520","price":40.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_ace05fa8-3a4d-4551-b4e3-f2519d73598a.jpg?v=1771350610","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/honored-guest-9781400095520","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}