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  <title><![CDATA[Honored Guest]]></title>
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  <default_description>With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways&amp;#8211;comic, tragic, and unnerving&amp;#8212;we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. A masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders her husband to a creepily adoring student. From one of our most acclaimed writers, &lt;b&gt;Honored Guest &lt;/b&gt;is a rich examination of our capacity for transformation and salvation.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2004</original_publication_year>
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  <date_added>Tue Apr 15 11:37:27 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 21 09:41:38 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Joy Williams is just genius. I want to plagiarize it all. The elliptical “plots”(or parody of plots), the savage humor, surreal dialogue, the palpable threat in nearly every line, absurd situations, her unsettling and painfully convincing vision of life, and her handling of death, anxiety, sickn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20229163">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 05 21:14:49 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;She had been having a rough time of it and thought about suicide sometimes, but suicide was so corny and you had to be careful in this milieu which was eleventh grade because two of her classmates had committed suicide the year before and between them left twenty-four suicide notes and had bec...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2757743">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sun Mar 30 11:48:03 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Mar 30 11:50:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good, weird stories that don't feel the need to show growth, significance and epiphany in every detail.  I want a deer-foot lamp that likes to read Moby-Dick.]]></body>
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    <review id="64231349">
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  <date_added>Mon Jul 20 10:24:49 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[The title story, about a teenage girl whose mother is dying, is fantastic.  The &quot;five stages of grief&quot; turn into five hundred, the abyss yawns and waits behind every aggressively empty line that the mom utters. The atmosphere crackles with danger.<br/><br/>Four stars for that story alone...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64231349">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Mon Dec 22 11:18:18 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 22 11:20:29 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing short stories, most are about death, and all are about loss and loneliness, and all the ways that people deal with this emotions.  This book has some of the mind blowing symbolism I've ever read, they are symbols you can't really figure out.  These stories are should be depressing, but they ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40684704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2594091">
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 01 11:18:36 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jul 07 15:00:37 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Easily one of the best short story collections.  Stunning, and bizarre, but never forced or wacky.  Joy Williams is something strange:  A completely unique voice in fiction.  Comparisons to Denis Johnson or Kelly Link aren't out of order, but they don't express how perfect these stories are, standin...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2594091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48615249">
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the title story a lot.  &quot;Charity&quot; was good too.]]></body>
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    <review id="41033506">
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    <body><![CDATA[I am an enormous Joy Williams fan, though I was more blown away by Escapes and Taking Care. Honored Guest is, of course, solid but doesn't quite make me squirm like her other collections.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Jan 07 13:24:10 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[endings leave a little to be desired]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[These stories are amazing, especially the endings, but I made the mistake of reading them when I was staying alone in the house.  Oof.  They are tough.  I had to take the book back to the library because it was due, but I plan to take it out and finish it, probably while sitting inside a protective ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27854731">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28459036">
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    <body><![CDATA[More story-driven than I typically like, which makes it kind of a relief, i.e., an easy read? I'm enjoying it profusely on the late-morning can, not to denigrate its obviously high degree of literary and experimental quality (in this case more &quot;quirky prose&quot; than word-driven poetical hybri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28459036">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first story was the best one in the collection and even it wasn't very good, the depressing factor wasn't the problem, it was something else.  Once again, judging a book by its cover (I really like the cover) has proven a poor way of judging if a book is worth reading.  I will continue to do it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17455513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15294335">
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  <read_at>Sun May 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved the dark settings for these short stories.  Have you ever read a story that takes place in a taxidermy museum?  My only complaint is that the stories seemed to stop instead of end.]]></body>
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    <review id="1318425">
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this book. I have read many of the stories more than once. Some more than five times. I like this book. I like Joy Williams.<br/><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Darkly witty - think of her as the predecessor of people like Aimee Bender or Judy Budnitz.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scathingly funny stories, with a raw vision of the world that's refreshing. ]]></body>
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    <review id="2625356">
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    <body><![CDATA[Not her very best, but another wonderful collection of odd, engaging stories.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[this was way too sad for me.]]></body>
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