Changeling

Joy Williams

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TIN HOUSE BOOKS
10 April 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fantasy; Myth & legend told as fiction; Dark Fantasy / Grimdark; Fairy Tale; Shapeshifters Fantasy

"Forty years later, The Changeling is no less haunting and no less visionary than the day it was published, but it has only become clearer that Joy Williams is a virtuosic stylist and a singular thinker--a genius in every sense of the word.

When we first meet Pearl--young in years but advanced in her drinking--she's on the lam, sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics with her infant son cradled in the crook of her arm. But her escape is brief, and the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband, and the Northeastern island his family calls home, doesn't last for long. Soon she's being shepherded back. The island, for Pearl, is a place of madness and pain, and her round-the-clock drinking spurs on the former even if it dulls the latter. And through this lens--Pearl's fragile consciousness--readers encounter the horror and triumph of both childhood and motherhood in a new light.

With language that flits between exuberance and elegy, the plainspoken and the poetic, Joy Williams has blended, as Rick Moody writes, ""the arresting improbabilities of magic realism, with the surrealism of the folkloric revival . . . and with the modernist foreboding of Under the Volcano,"" and created something entirely original and entirely consuming."

By: Joy Williams
Imprint: TIN HOUSE BOOKS
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 201mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9781941040898
ISBN 10: 1941040896
Publication Date: 10 April 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Changeling

Joy Williams' exquisite vision of mothers and monsters leaves me drunk with wonder. Her language is so powerful, her images so lush, my copy is dogeared on nearly every page.--Samantha Hunt An elusive but enchanting work by one of America's greatest authors.--Kirkus

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Changeling

Joy Williams

$42.95

Hardback

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