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Ninety-nine stories of God / by Joy Williams.

by Williams, Joy, 1944-

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Tin House Books, 2016.

God -- Fiction.

9781941040355 (hc.)

1941040357 (hc.)

Short stories. Selections.

Alternate title:

99 stories of God

1 v. (unpaged) ; 21 cm.

"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’s 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."--From publisher.

Literary fiction.

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