The Collected Stories Of Diane Williams
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Author |
: Diane Williams |
Publisher |
: Soho Press |
Total Pages |
: 785 |
Release |
: 2018-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781616959838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1616959835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Collected Stories of Diane Williams by : Diane Williams
With over three hundred new and previously published short stories as well as three novellas, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together distilled works of “unsettling brilliance” (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of American short fiction. From Ben Marcus’ introduction to The Collected Stories of Diane Williams: “Diane Williams has spent her long, prolific career concocting fictions of perfect strangeness, most of them no more than a page long. She’s a hero of the form: the sudden fiction, the flash fiction, whatever it’s being called these days. The stories are short. They defy logic. They thumb their nose at conventional sense, or even unconventional sense. But if sense is in short supply in these texts, that leaves more room for splendor and sorrow. These stories upend expectations and prize enigma and the uncanny above all else. The Williams epiphany should be patented, or bottled—on the other hand, it should also be regulated and maybe rationed, because it’s severe. It’s a rare feeling her stories trigger, but it’s a keen and deep and welcome one, the sort of feeling that wakes us up to complication and beauty and dissonance and fragility.”
Author |
: Diane Williams |
Publisher |
: Soho Press |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 2021-10-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781641293068 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1641293063 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis How High?--That High by : Diane Williams
Diane Williams, an American master of the short story who will “rewire your brain” (NPR), is back with a collection in which she once again expands the possibilities of fiction. These stories depict ordinary moments—a visit to the doctor’s office or a married couple’s hundredth dance together—but within the quotidian, Williams delivers a lifetime of insecurities, lusts, rejections, and revelations, making her work equally discomfiting and amusing. With unmatched wit in every sentence, Williams captures whole universes in a story, delivering visionary insights into what it means to be human. Williams’ devotees will be newly enthralled by her elegantly strange, bewitching stories in How High? — That High. Those who have yet to meet “the godmother of flash fiction” (The Paris Review) will find an extraordinary introduction in these pages.
Author |
: Diane Williams |
Publisher |
: McSweeney's |
Total Pages |
: 71 |
Release |
: 2016-01-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781940450858 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1940450853 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine, Fine by : Diane Williams
One of Elle's "Must-Read Titles for Your Book Club." Chosen by The Millions and Flavorwire as one of the most-anticipated books of 2016. The very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called “folk tales that hammer like a nail gun,” and these 40 new ones are sharper than ever. They are unsettling, yes, frequently revelatory, and more often than not downright funny. Not a single moment here is what you might expect. While there is immense pleasure to be found in Williams’s spot-on observations about how we behave in our highest and lowest moments, the heart of the drama beats in the language of American short fiction’s grand master, whose originality, precision, and power bring the familiar into startling and enchanted relief.
Author |
: Diane Williams |
Publisher |
: McSweeney's |
Total Pages |
: 129 |
Release |
: 2012-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781938073083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1938073088 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty by : Diane Williams
In Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williams's unsettling stories—a cryptic meeting between neighbors, a woman's sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fire—are narrated with razor-sharp tongues and naked, uproarious irreverence. These fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawling—the mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams' position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today.
Author |
: Diane Williams |
Publisher |
: University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages |
: 148 |
Release |
: 2007-10-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781573661409 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1573661406 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis It Was Like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted Nature by : Diane Williams
This work by Diane Williams delves into the strange relationships of men and women. From marital betrayal to spousal abuse and unrelenting desire, Williams illuminates the lives of her characters in prose as sparse and stark as it is beautiful. These stories are as short as prose poems and as complex as novels. In them, meanings remain ambiguous and consequences seem uncertain. In the novella “On Sexual Strength” she describes the intense and sometimes strange relationship between two neighboring couples and the rage that comes with adultery, and a narrator whose social inadequacies and lack of inhibitions lead to destruction. The world Williams creates is a sensual place where quiet epiphanies—such as the one that occurs after an extramarital affair— are also possible: “It was like My Trying to Have a Tender-Hearted nature. This is how love can be featured.” Such flashes of insight and emotion glue together the fragments of life Williams lays before the reader, and the reader rejoices at the revelations.
Author |
: Diane Williams |
Publisher |
: Beach Holme |
Total Pages |
: 125 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0888783000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780888783004 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis This is about the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time, and Fate : Stories by : Diane Williams
Author |
: Tennessee Williams |
Publisher |
: New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 610 |
Release |
: 1994-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811220811 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811220818 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Collected Stories by : Tennessee Williams
This definitive collection establishes Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century. Tennessee Williams’ Collected Stories combines the four short-story volumes published during Williams’ lifetime with previously unpublished or uncollected stories. Arranged chronologically, the forty-nine stories, when taken together with the memoir of his father that serves as a preface, not only establish Williams as a major American fiction writer of the twentieth century, but also, in Gore Vidal’s view, constitute the real autobiography of Williams’ "art and inner life."
Author |
: Diane Williams |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015053477108 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Romancer Erector by : Diane Williams
Famous for her works of "flash fiction" which capture life, love, and contradiction in a single page, Diane Williams continues to forge her own innovative tradition in this new collection. Including over three dozen short stories along with three novellas, Romancer Erector is her boldest collection to date. Here she once again astonishes us with her distinctive voice, detached yet fiercely intimate. As one critic writes: "the effect is original, as if a strange little memory has insinuated itself into the reader's own memory, to remain there...incapable of assimilation." Like intricately wrapped gifts, these tales deliver the hidden, the haunted, the charms, the bell, the mansions inside of the human heart.
Author |
: Diane Glancy |
Publisher |
: University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 1993 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0806124903 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780806124902 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Firesticks by : Diane Glancy
Presents a collection of stories filled with such unusual characters as the shy stamp collector who dreams that he can go anywhere through the U.S. Post Office
Author |
: Diane Keaton |
Publisher |
: Random House Incorporated |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400068784 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400068789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Then Again by : Diane Keaton
An intimate account by the Academy Award-winning actress documents her rise from an everyday girl to an acclaimed performer while exploring her defining relationship with her mother and how their shared and separate dreams influenced their experiences.