Vicky Swanky is a Beauty
Author(s): Diane Williams
CONTEMPORARY FICTION | SHORT STORIES
In Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williams's unsettling stories-a cryptic meeting between neighbours, a woman's sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fire-are narrated with razor-sharp tongues and naked, uproarious irreverence. These fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawling-the mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams' position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Transit Lounge Publishing
- : Transit Lounge Publishing
- : 01 July 2012
- : 191mm X 133mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Diane Williams
- : BB
- : 712
- : 128