Vicky Swanky is a beauty

118 pages

English language

Published Dec. 15, 2012 by McSweeney's Books.

ISBN:
978-1-936365-71-5
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OCLC Number:
738348790

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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.

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