Honored Guest |
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| Author:
| Williams, Joy |
| ISBN: | 978-1-299-00609-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2010 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways-comic, tragic, and unnerving--we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. A masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student. From one of our most acclaimed writers, Honored Guest is a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation.
With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways-comic, tragic, and unnerving--we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. A masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student. From one of our most acclaimed writers, Honored Guest is a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation.