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The Visiting Privilege

`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 and writers for decades. Here, for the first time, Williams` thirty-three best stories are available in a single volume, together with thirteen new stories that show a writer continuing to mould the form into something strange and new.Bleak but funny, real but surreal, domestic but dangerous, familiar but enigmatic, Joy Williams` stories fray away the fabric at the edge of ordinary experience to reveal the loneliness at the heart of human life.In `The Lover`, a girl suffers a spiritual and physical wasting away; in `The Visiting Privilege`, a visitor finds refuge in her friend`s psychiatric ward; in `Charity`, a woman gives a poor family gas money and finds herself marooned in their peculiar world; in `Another Season` an itinerant man cleanses an island of roadkill; in `Craving` an alcoholic couple head towards a car crash.The Visiting Privilege represents the culmination of Williams` career and cements her place as the most singular artist of short fiction writing today.

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