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Joy Williams is the author of four novels—the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001—and four collections of stories, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the Academy in 2008. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming.
“This compassionate and original book is about love and loneliness
and courage in the new wilderness of out atomized society. It is
also funny, awful and gruesomely Floridian without sacrificing its
seriousness. Joy Williams is as fine a writer as you heard she
was.”—Thomas McGuane
“An ominous and enthralling novel .... truly significant fiction,
of which there is not very much around. Breaking and Entering
reminds me again that life is short; it is also very wide.”—Jim
Harrison
“To put it simply, Joy Williams is the most gifted writer of her
generation. For her, the human personality is of most interest and
most truth when it is under the most extreme pressure.... This
notion of truth emerges in Joy Williams’s work in a complete
Americanness of setting, language, and psychology that I find to be
of great beauty and meaning.”—Harold Brodkey
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