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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and grave.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Joy Williams
- First published
- 2025
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780525657583
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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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