Ninety-Nine Stories of God
by Joy Williams
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Pub Date Jul 12 2016 | Archive Date Jun 30 2016
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Advance Praise
"Fans of Williams will not be disappointed in this latest offering. The stories, rather than devotional, or a sweet reminiscence of divine intervention, are a series of vignettes that throw into sharp relief the rippling something in the back of humanity’s daily lives....Each story is brief, with some less than a paragraph. Some amaze, some are quietly powerful, some gracefully absurd. Much like the divine, Williams’ prose is simple and brutal, thoughtful and haunting. A spare but startling book." - Booklist, Starred Review
“These modern fables and skewed vignettes make the implausible plausible. Compression, as done by Joy Williams, extends the reach of her stories.” - Amy Hempel, author of AT THE GATES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781941040355 |
| PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |
Featured Reviews
Ellen A, Educator
I thought that Joy Williams' collection of short stories, Ninety-Nine Stories of God, might be a sort of collection of fictional devotions. And I suppose they might be, if one expanded the definition of "devotion" beyond recognition!
The stories are very short, somewhat like those of Lydia Davis; most of them are one or two pages and but many are even shorter-a paragraph or a few lines.
But how wonderful they are! God figures in them but often obliquely. Sometimes He seems to be irrelevant to the lives of the people in the story, other times he appears more baffled than the other characters at what happens. There are some true "stories" mixed in among the more purely fictional ones, stories that are quotes from William James or Simone Weil. O.J. Simpson makes an appearance as well.
The range of the stories is wide. They are often dark but funny as well. In fact, I found many of them, despite the bleak portrayal of human life, hilarious.
I am grateful to Tin House Books and NetGalley for giving me an advance copy of this very exciting collection. I can't wait to read them again!
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