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The Pelican Child: Stories
By Joy Williams
Hardcover
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By Joy Williams
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Joy Williams delivers a collection of vivid stories exploring the human experience through the dreams and struggles of lost souls searching for meaning.
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 writer of “perfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss” (The Atlantic).
“An American master is back with crystalline stories that map the personal and political...
“An American master is back with crystalline stories that map the personal and political...
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