Fine, fine, fine, fine, fine stories
"The very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called 'folk tales that hammer like a nail gun,' and these forty new ones are sharper than ever. They are unsettling, yes, frequently revelatory, and more often than not downright funny."--Publisher website.
| Main Author: | Williams, Diane, 1946- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Mcsweeney's,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Beauty, love and vanity itself
- Gray pottery head
- Cinch
- Gulls
- To revive a person is no slight thing
- Head of naked girl
- Rhapsody breeze
- Lavatory
- People of the week
- Romantic life
- Great passion and its context
- Specialist
- Poet
- At a period of exceptional dullness
- Head of the big man
- Living deluxe
- Personal details
- Flying things
- How blown up
- Sigh
- There is always a hesitation before turning in a finished job
- Mermaid pose
- Greed
- Clarinda
- Skol
- Thickening wish
- Lamb chops, cod
- Of the true and final good
- Glimpses of Mrs. Williams
- Girl with a pencil
- Perform small tasks
- With red chair
- Try
- Removal men
- Mere flask poured out
- Bang bang on the stair
- Little bottle of tears
- When I was old and ugly
- Palm against palm
- Human comb.