The Quick & the Dead by Joy Williams
The Quick & the Dead by Joy Williams. 2000 Knopf, first edition, 308 pages. Joy Williams is an essayist, novelist, and short-story writer, often writing about Florida and climate. In a profile in the New Yorker, Katy Waldman wrote: "Her tales offer a dark, provisional illumination, and they make the kind of sense that disperses upon waking. For years, Williams has worn sunglasses at all hours, as if to blacken her vision."
Condition: VG
"The winter had not brought rain and there were no flowers, there would be no flowers."
The Quick & the Dead by Joy Williams. 2000 Knopf, first edition, 308 pages. Joy Williams is an essayist, novelist, and short-story writer, often writing about Florida and climate. In a profile in the New Yorker, Katy Waldman wrote: "Her tales offer a dark, provisional illumination, and they make the kind of sense that disperses upon waking. For years, Williams has worn sunglasses at all hours, as if to blacken her vision."
Condition: VG
"The winter had not brought rain and there were no flowers, there would be no flowers."