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I Liked Rex - by Diane Williams (Paperback)
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- From "the godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), a new collection of delightful and daringly oblique stories about the mysteries of life and the human heart.
- About the Author: Diane Williams is the author of several collections of short fiction, most recently I Hear You're Rich, and the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON.
- 136 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)
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From "the godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), a new collection of delightful and daringly oblique stories about the mysteries of life and the human heart.
Diane Williams is one of the great masters of the American short story: her tiny, coruscating tales are among the most tender, funny, peculiar, and searching works in all of contemporary literature. I Liked Rex is Williams's newest collection, which explores sex, love, marriage, and all that comes after; it is a book about living, but more importantly, about how to be alive.
In these stories, a woman sees her soon-to-be ex-husband on the street, walking patiently at the end of a line of geese; a mother implores a total stranger to watch over her small child at the beach; a guest arrives at an orgy uninvited, and takes a nap beneath a dusty carpet; a woman reflects on her life with a man who used to belong to another, but is hers now--though can anyone really possess anyone else, truly?
Williams's genius lies as much in what is left unspoken as in what is laid out on the page; behind images of startling beauty and strangeness, entire chamber dramas of the heart unfold, and the pleasure of these sphinx-like tales comes from their unremitting mystery, which is the same mystery fundamental to life and to love. A collection of rare originality and daring, I Liked Rex is a complete and utter delight.
About the Author
Diane Williams is the author of several collections of short fiction, most recently I Hear You're Rich, and the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. An omnibus of her work, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams, was published in 2018.
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