Breaking and Entering - Hardcover

Williams, Joy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002710552 ISBN 13: 9780002710558

Publisher: The Harvill Press, 1988

Synopsis

A story about a young couple who are drifting apart. They break into Florida vacation homes while the owners are away, stay awhile and then move on. Liberty senses that Willie is drifting away from her and that their search, so relentless and mysterious, is becoming increasingly dangerous.

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Review:

This compassionate and original book is about love and loneliness and courage in the new wilderness of out atomized society. It is also funny, awful and gruesomely Floridian without sacrificing its seriousness. Joy Williams is as fine a writer as you heard she was. Thomas McGuane
An ominous and enthralling novel . . . truly significant fiction, of which there is not very much around.Breaking and Enteringreminds me again that life is short; it is also very wide. Jim Harrison
To put it simply, Joy Williams is the most gifted writer of her generation. For her, the human personality is of most interest and most truth when it is under the most extreme pressure. . . . This notion of truth emerges in Joy Williams s work in a complete Americanness of setting, language, and psychology that I find to be of great beauty and meaning. Harold Brodkey"

About the Author:

Joy Williams is the author of four novels the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001 and four collections of stories, as well asIll Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the Academy in 2008. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming."

About this edition

• Publisher: The Harvill Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0002710552
• ISBN 13: 9780002710558
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256