Breaking and Entering

by Joy Williams

Overview

Willie and Liberty are drifters. They break into Florida vacation homes while the owners are away, stay a while, and then move on. They have been lovers since they were teenagers, yet Liberty now senses that Willie is drifting away from her—that their search, so relentless and mysterious, is becoming increasingly dangerous. An exhilarating cast of characters reflects this search, which is not just for home, but for self.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780394757735
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/12/1988
Series:	Vintage Contemporaries Series
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.49(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.62(d)

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 four 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.