The Resource Ninety-nine stories of God, by Joy Williams
Ninety-nine stories of God, by Joy Williams
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- Summary
- Seldom occupying more than a couple of pages, Williams' stories are headed by a number, one to 99, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O.J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for him when he's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 volume (unpaged)
- Contents
-
- Clean
- The darkling thrush
- Wet
- Arrangement
- No
- Moms
- Cozy
- Story
- If picked or uprooted these beautiful flowers will disappear
- Dresser
- This is not a maze
- Postcard
- Perhaps a kind of cake?
- This time
- Coat
- Some difference
- And you are--
- Nid duw ond dim (without God there is nothing)
- Veracity
- Satisfaction
- A good reason
- Abandon all hope
- Noche
- Ignorance
- Satan's leathery wing
- Society
- Shaken
- Irreducible
- Tragedy has obligations
- Just a rumor
- Dearest
- The brain
- Actually
- Aubade
- Buried in Colorado all alone
- Señor Xólotl
- Jail
- Pretty much the same, then
- Her eyes were set rather close together, which gave her an urgent air
- The individualist
- Numbers
- Preference
- Get out as early as you can
- Participation
- Cavity
- Naked mind
- Buick LeSabre
- Significance
- Doll house
- Peggy
- Divine
- Neglect
- Giraffe
- Dew
- Sartre to Camus
- Nevertheless
- Looking good
- Party
- Museum
- Essential enough
- Apropos of nothing
- I pity the fool
- Dull
- Rebirth
- Forgiveness
- ) (
- See that you remember
- Inoculum
- Driveshaft
- Fog
- Whale
- A little prayer
- Walk-in
- Transition
- Whatever is happening?
- Elephants never forget God
- The fourth wife
- Not his best
- Example
- Opportunity
- Businesswoman
- Polyurethane
- Crazy Injuns
- Winter
- Early practice
- Infidelity
- Plot
- A flawed opinion
- Hedgehog
- Phew
- Compline
- This is the way that night passes
- Distinction
- Fathers and sons
- If you feel you must
- Sibling
- Plenary
- Bread
- A new arrangement
- Isbn
- 9781941040355
- Label
- Ninety-nine stories of God
- Title
- Ninety-nine stories of God
- Statement of responsibility
- by Joy Williams
- Title variation
- 99 stories of God
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Seldom occupying more than a couple of pages, Williams' stories are headed by a number, one to 99, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O.J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for him when he's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists
- Award
- New York Times Notable Book, 2016
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- 10515968
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- 1944-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Williams, Joy
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- short stories
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- God
- Spirituality
- Label
- Ninety-nine stories of God, by Joy Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Clean
- The darkling thrush
- Wet
- Arrangement
- No
- Moms
- Cozy
- Story
- If picked or uprooted these beautiful flowers will disappear
- Dresser
- This is not a maze
- Postcard
- Perhaps a kind of cake?
- This time
- Coat
- Some difference
- And you are--
- Nid duw ond dim (without God there is nothing)
- Veracity
- Satisfaction
- A good reason
- Abandon all hope
- Noche
- Ignorance
- Satan's leathery wing
- Society
- Shaken
- Irreducible
- Tragedy has obligations
- Just a rumor
- Dearest
- The brain
- Actually
- Aubade
- Buried in Colorado all alone
- Señor Xólotl
- Jail
- Pretty much the same, then
- Her eyes were set rather close together, which gave her an urgent air
- The individualist
- Numbers
- Preference
- Get out as early as you can
- Participation
- Cavity
- Naked mind
- Buick LeSabre
- Significance
- Doll house
- Peggy
- Divine
- Neglect
- Giraffe
- Dew
- Sartre to Camus
- Nevertheless
- Looking good
- Party
- Museum
- Essential enough
- Apropos of nothing
- I pity the fool
- Dull
- Rebirth
- Forgiveness
- ) (
- See that you remember
- Inoculum
- Driveshaft
- Fog
- Whale
- A little prayer
- Walk-in
- Transition
- Whatever is happening?
- Elephants never forget God
- The fourth wife
- Not his best
- Example
- Opportunity
- Businesswoman
- Polyurethane
- Crazy Injuns
- Winter
- Early practice
- Infidelity
- Plot
- A flawed opinion
- Hedgehog
- Phew
- Compline
- This is the way that night passes
- Distinction
- Fathers and sons
- If you feel you must
- Sibling
- Plenary
- Bread
- A new arrangement
- Control code
- 1611197
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 1 volume (unpaged)
- Isbn
- 9781941040355
- Lccn
- 2016006741
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9781941040355
- (OCoLC)923794393
- Label
- Ninety-nine stories of God, by Joy Williams
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Clean
- The darkling thrush
- Wet
- Arrangement
- No
- Moms
- Cozy
- Story
- If picked or uprooted these beautiful flowers will disappear
- Dresser
- This is not a maze
- Postcard
- Perhaps a kind of cake?
- This time
- Coat
- Some difference
- And you are--
- Nid duw ond dim (without God there is nothing)
- Veracity
- Satisfaction
- A good reason
- Abandon all hope
- Noche
- Ignorance
- Satan's leathery wing
- Society
- Shaken
- Irreducible
- Tragedy has obligations
- Just a rumor
- Dearest
- The brain
- Actually
- Aubade
- Buried in Colorado all alone
- Señor Xólotl
- Jail
- Pretty much the same, then
- Her eyes were set rather close together, which gave her an urgent air
- The individualist
- Numbers
- Preference
- Get out as early as you can
- Participation
- Cavity
- Naked mind
- Buick LeSabre
- Significance
- Doll house
- Peggy
- Divine
- Neglect
- Giraffe
- Dew
- Sartre to Camus
- Nevertheless
- Looking good
- Party
- Museum
- Essential enough
- Apropos of nothing
- I pity the fool
- Dull
- Rebirth
- Forgiveness
- ) (
- See that you remember
- Inoculum
- Driveshaft
- Fog
- Whale
- A little prayer
- Walk-in
- Transition
- Whatever is happening?
- Elephants never forget God
- The fourth wife
- Not his best
- Example
- Opportunity
- Businesswoman
- Polyurethane
- Crazy Injuns
- Winter
- Early practice
- Infidelity
- Plot
- A flawed opinion
- Hedgehog
- Phew
- Compline
- This is the way that night passes
- Distinction
- Fathers and sons
- If you feel you must
- Sibling
- Plenary
- Bread
- A new arrangement
- Control code
- 1611197
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 1 volume (unpaged)
- Isbn
- 9781941040355
- Lccn
- 2016006741
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9781941040355
- (OCoLC)923794393
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