Ninety-nine stories of God
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Portland, OR : Tin House Books, [2016].
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Greenwood Lake Public Library - Adult Fiction | Williams, J. | On Shelf |
Highland Falls Library - Adult Short Story Anthologies | SS Wil | On Shelf |
Middletown-Thrall Public Library District - Adult Fiction | WILLIAMS | On Shelf |
Newburgh Free Library - Adult Fiction | WILLIAMS | On Shelf |
Palisades Free Library - Adult Fiction | Wil | On Shelf |
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Portland, OR : Tin House Books, [2016].
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Book
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1 volume (unpaged) ; 21 cm.
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English
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Seldom occupying more than a couple of pages, Williams' stories are headed by a number, one to 99, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O.J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for him when he's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Williams, J. (2016). Ninety-nine stories of God . Tin House Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Williams, Joy, 1944-. 2016. Ninety-nine Stories of God. Tin House Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Williams, Joy, 1944-. Ninety-nine Stories of God Tin House Books, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Williams, Joy. Ninety-nine Stories of God Tin House Books, 2016.
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