Ninety-nine stories of God
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 manki...
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| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Postcard -- |t Noche -- |t Aubade -- |t Cavity -- |t Nevertheless -- |t See that you remember -- |t Not his best -- |t Hedgehog -- |t Clean -- |t Wet -- |t Arrangement -- |t No -- |t Moms -- |t Cozy -- |t Story -- |t If picked or uprooted these beautiful flowers will disappear -- |t Dresser -- |t This is not a maze -- |t Perhaps a kind of cake? -- |t This time -- |t Coat -- |t Some difference -- |t And you are-- -- |t Nid duw ond dim (without God there is nothing) -- |t Veracity -- |t Satisfaction -- |t A good reason -- |t Abandon all hope -- |t Ignorance -- |t Satan's leathery wing -- |t Society -- |t Shaken -- |t Irreducible -- |t Tragedy has obligations -- |t Just a rumor -- |t Dearest -- |t The brain -- |t Actually -- |t Buried in Colorado all alone -- |t Señor Xólotl -- |t Jail -- |t Pretty much the same, then -- |t Her eyes were set rather close together, which gave her an urgent air -- |t The individualist -- |t Numbers -- |t Preference -- |t Get out as early as you can -- |t Participation -- |t Naked mind -- |t Buick LeSabre -- |t Significance -- |t Doll house -- |t Peggy -- |t Divine -- |t Neglect -- |t Giraffe -- |t Dew -- |t Sartre to Camus -- |t Looking good -- |t Party -- |t Museum -- |t Essential enough -- |t Apropos of nothing -- |t I pity the fool -- |t Dull -- |t Rebirth -- |t Forgiveness -- |t ) ( -- |t Inoculum -- |t Driveshaft -- |t Fog -- |t Whale -- |t A little prayer -- |t Walk-in -- |t Transition -- |t Whatever is happening? -- |t Elephants never forget God -- |t The fourth wife -- |t Example -- |t Opportunity -- |t Businesswoman -- |t Polyurethane -- |t Crazy Injuns -- |t Winter -- |t Early practice -- |t Infidelity -- |t Plot -- |t A flawed opinion -- |t Phew -- |t Compline -- |t This is the way that night passes -- |t Distinction -- |t Fathers and sons -- |t If you feel you must -- |t Sibling -- |t Plenary -- |t Bread -- |t A new arrangement -- |t The darkling thrush. |
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