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Synopsis
Three teenage girls in Arizona are the focus of Joy Williams's somewhat surrealist fourth novel--her first book in 10 years. As they live their indolent lives, the girls encounter a collection of eccentrics, including a suicidal piano player, a man who believes a monkey lives inside his head, and a big-game hunter in love with a child. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
| Size | | Length: | 307 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 8.8 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "So you don't believe in a future life. Then do we have the place for you!"
Industry Reviews
"...THE QUICK AND THE DEAD is odd, intelligent, unsettling and sometimes spectacularly uningratiating. (It's also beautifully written, and often very funny.) It proceeds not so much by means of a plot as by a chaotic ingathering of wounded characters who have made an early and ambiguous acquaintance with death."
Schuessler
"There is no writer in American better than Joy Williams at describing in fiction the evanescent states of mind of the contemporary female adolescent....The rising ironic curve of this novel is a steep hill to climb. But then there are moments of astonishing loveliness..."
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