Joy Williams

• Nov-2025
• / General Fiction
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of “perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to lo...

• Jul-2024
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"Glittering. . . . filled with humor, canny allusion, beauty.” -- The New Yorker“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.” -- NPR “Williams is a writer for our times: both visionary and caustic, knowing yet also full of w...

• Sep-2021
• / Psychological Suspense
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In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to sal...

• Aug-2016
• / General Fiction
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Olivia loves being a princess. She loves the shimmer, gowns and crowns! And since Olivia has to wear glasses anyway, she wears her pink bedazzled glasses to match her look. Unfortunately, thanks to her classmates, being a princess is only a fair...

• Jul-2016
• / Christian
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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), ...

• Jun-2016
• / General Fiction
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Olivia is a darling seven year old girl, who wants to be a princess. Unfortunately, with the help of her classmates, she doesn't think she can be one, simply because she wears glasses. What makes it worse is that Olivia has never seen a princess with...

• Sep-2015
• / Literary
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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 ...

• May-2015
• / General Fiction
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Francine and Freddie live in a little house on the edge of the desert, with not enough money, too many snakes, no coffee, and a very strange gardener named Dennis who wants to start a security cactus...

• Apr-2013
• / Christian
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• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. This 30th Anniversary Edition of THE CHANGELING by Joy Williams includes a Foreword by Rick Moody. An overlooked and spectacular novel, THE CHANGELING is a visionary fairy tale, a work of mythic genius. Terrifying, poetic, revelations follow...

• Oct-2004
• / General Fiction
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Among the "best American short stories of the past two decades" (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of our most acclaimed writers. In short stories "so vibrant and alive they have heartbeats, the prose so electric and dazzling it makes the pulse race" (V...

• Oct-2000
• / Action Adventure
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PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • From one of our most heralded writers comes the “poetic, disturbing, yet very funny” (The Washington Post Book World) life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert.One of The Atla...

• Apr-1991
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-1988
• / General Fiction
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From "a brilliant spawn of Raymond Carver and Flannery O'Connor" (Elle) comes a novel starring an exhilarating cast of characters that reflects the search, not just for home, but for self. Willie and Liberty are drifters. They break into Fl...

• Jan-1986
• / General Fiction
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • This "beautifully crafted" (The New York Times Book Review), haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness. It i...

• Feb-1982
• / General Fiction
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A collection of "uncommonly good stories" (The Chicago Tribune) from a true American master of the short story -- disturbing, comic, and moving takes that find deeper meanings in ordinary domestic life. With unforgettable characters, places, and even...