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44 produkter
J R
Av William Gaddis, Joy Williams
Häftad, 2020
295 kr
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A National Book Award-winning satire about the unchecked power of American capitalism, written more than three decades before the 2008 financial crisis. At the center of J R is J R Vansant, a very average sixth grader from Long Island with torn sneakers, a runny nose, and a juvenile fascination …
John Calvin's Illustrated Institutes: The Word of God: Book 1: Chapters 6-9
Av Martin Patrick Williams, Joy Williams m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
183 kr
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John Calvin's Illustrated Institutes: Knowing God and Knowing Ourselves: Book 1: Chapters 1-5
Av Martin Patrick Williams, Joy Williams
Häftad, 2025
187 kr
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Florida Keys
A History & Guide Tenth Edition
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2010
96 kr
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The Florida Keys: A History & Guide is an engaging handbook to the unique coral and limestone islands that curve southwest off the tip of Florida. Acclaimed novelist and Florida resident Joy Williams traces U.S. Highway 1 from Key Largo to Key West, combining the best of local legend—colorful …
Quick and the Dead
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2010
160 kr
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Misanthropic Alice is a budding eco-terrorist; Corvus has dedicated herself to mourning; Annabel is desperate to pursue an ordinary American life of indulgences. Misfit and motherless, they share an American desert summer of darkly illuminating signs and portents. In locales as mirrored strange as …
Honored Guest
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2010
164 kr
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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 …
Taking Care
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2010
264 kr
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Stories deal with a young divorcee, a shared summer home, a troubled family, a wedding, childhood fears, the death of a pet, a lying child, and enlightenment.
Breaking and Entering
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2010
88 kr
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A book about violence and redemption, Joy Williams'' new fiction tells the story of two drifters who break into Florida vacation homes while their owners are away, live there a while, then move on.
State of Grace
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2011
96 kr
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Nominated for the National Book Award in 1974, this 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 …
The Pelican Child
Stories
Av Joy Williams
Inbunden, 1900
313 kr
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LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE • NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary …
Ill Nature
Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
Av Joy Williams
Häftad, 2015
286 kr
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Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she …
Visiting Privilege
New and Collected Stories
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2015
176 kr
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The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years—and, finally, the definitive one. A literary event of the highest order. Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing as a given from one generation to the next even in the …
Other Week
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2015
17 kr
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Francine and Freddie live in a little house on the edge of the desert, with not enough money, too many snakes, no coffee, and a very strange gardener named Dennis who wants to start a security cactus ranch and is nursing a lost love. Things are ripe …
Ill Nature
Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2001
375 kr
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Williams tackles a host of controversial subjects in this collection of nineteen impassioned essays dealing mostly with humanity's abuses of the natural world.
Ill Nature
Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2015
261 kr
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Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she …
Visiting Privilege
New and Collected Stories
Av Joy Williams
Ljudbok, 2016
492 kr
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The legendary writer’s first collection in more than ten years, a literary event of the highest order Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at …
Visiting Privilege
Av Joy Williams
Häftad, 2017
142 kr
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'How to tell the story of a 500-page collection of stories spanning more than forty years? Especially when I really want to just exclaim, "Oh, Oh, OH!" in a state of steadily mounting rapture' Geoff Dyer, ObserverWilliams' uniquely devastating portrayals of modern life have been captivating readers …
Visiting Privilege
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2016
115 kr
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''How to tell the story of a 500-page collection of stories spanning more than forty years? Especially when I really want to just exclaim, "Oh, Oh, OH!" in a state of steadily mounting rapture'' Geoff Dyer, ObserverWilliams'' uniquely devastating portrayals of modern life have been captivating …
Ninety-Nine Stories of God
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2017
115 kr
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At a hot-dog-eating contest or at a demolition derby, in line at the pharmacy counter waiting for a shingles vaccination, living in a cave with a colony of bats: the Almighty appears in ever-more mysterious ways in Ninety-Nine Stories of God, Joy Williams'' surreal, sublime new collection of very …
Changeling
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2018
115 kr
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When we first meet Pearl - young in years but advanced in her drinking - she''s sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics. Cradled in the crook of her arm is her infant son. But the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband, and the Northeastern island his family …
Harrow
Av Joy Williams
E-bok, 2022
110 kr
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionA Sunday Times Book of the YearA Times Paperback of the Year In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an …
