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The Pelican Child [electronic resource] : Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award

Williams, Joy2025
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Lauded as the best story writer of our time, Joy Williams returns with a taut collection that responds to our modern dilemmas with her signature dry wit and deftness of touch. In sinister and shifting landscapes, we meet souls lost and found: from the twin heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune, who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family's deeds, to a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence, to the "pelican child", who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs. For readers of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders, these haunted stories examine the instincts separating us from the beastly and the divine.
Imprint:
[S.l.] : Profile, 2025.
Collation:
1 online resource
Notes:
Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] Profile 2025 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: CloudLibrary (file size: 1.2 MB)
ISBN:
9781805228561
Language:
English
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BRN:
9096889
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