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Willie and Liberty are drifters. They break into Florida vacation homes while the owners are away, stay a while, and then move on. They have been lovers since they were teenagers, yet Liberty now senses that Willie is drifting away from her--that their search, so relentless and mysterious, is becoming increasingly dangerous.
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- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Joy Williams
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 256
- Publisher
- Flamingo, Vintage Books, Collins Harvill
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780002710558
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**Joy Williams** (born February 11, 1944) is an American novelist, short-story writer, and essayist. Her notable works of fiction include State of Grace, The Changeling, and Harrow. Williams has received a Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, a Rea Award for the Short Story, a Kirkus Award for Fiction, and a Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. -Wikipedia
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