State of Grace
Joy Williams
(Author)
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Description
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 is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapes—in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern college populated by spoiled and perverse beauties, and in a doomed marriage to a man who cannot understand what she is running from. Witty, erotic, searing acute, State of Grace bears the inimitable stamp of one of our finest and most provocative writers.
It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapes—in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern college populated by spoiled and perverse beauties, and in a doomed marriage to a man who cannot understand what she is running from. Witty, erotic, searing acute, State of Grace bears the inimitable stamp of one of our finest and most provocative writers.
Product Details
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Publish Date | February 19, 1990 |
| Pages | 272 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9780679726197 |
| Dimensions | 8.1 X 5.2 X 0.6 inches | 0.6 pounds |
About the Author
JOY WILLIAMS is the author of four novels—the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001—and three other collections of stories, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. 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 was elected to the Academy in 2008. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming.
Reviews
"Beautifully crafted ... First rate." —The New York Times Book Review
"An intense personal vision ... explosive and hurtfully revealing." —Los Angeles Times
"To put it simply, Joy Williams is the most gifted writer of her generation." —Harold Brodkey
"An intense personal vision ... explosive and hurtfully revealing." —Los Angeles Times
"To put it simply, Joy Williams is the most gifted writer of her generation." —Harold Brodkey
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