Joy Williams





Joy Williams

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born
February 11, 1944 in Chelmsford, MA, The United States

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Average rating: 3.90 · 2,728 ratings · 505 reviews · 16 distinct works
The Quick and the Dead
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 396 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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Honored Guest
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 269 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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Taking Care
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 180 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions
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Breaking and Entering
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 140 ratings3 editions
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Escapes
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions
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State of Grace
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 113 ratings5 editions
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Ill Nature
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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The Changeling
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
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The Florida Keys: A History...
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1987 — 11 editions
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Effractions
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1973
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“She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She'd fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She'd really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She'd have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow - no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
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“There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.”
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“Words at night were feral things.”
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