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The visiting privilegeJoy Williams

The visiting privilege

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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 shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singluar achievement is put on display: thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the…

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4 editions
  • Other · English · 2017
    Visiting Privilege
    Serpent's Tail Limited · 514 pages · 9781781257470
  • Other · English · 2016
    Visiting Privilege
    Profile Books Limited · 514 pages · 9781781257463
  • Other · English · 2016
    Blackstone Audiobooks · 1 pages · 9781504708524
  • Other · English · 2015
    Alfred A. Knopf · 490 pages · 9781101874899
Prose literatureNew York Times reviewedFiction, short stories (single author)