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Concerning the Future of Souls
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"Glittering. . . . filled with humor, canny allusion, beauty.”—The New Yorker
“Quite possibly America's best living writer of short stories.”—NPR
“Williams is a writer for our times: both visionary and caustic, knowing yet also full of wonder.”—Catherine Taylor, The Financial Times
Over the course of these ninety-nine illuminations, a collection of connected and disparate beings—ranging from ordinary folk to grand, known figures such as Jung, Nietzsche, Pythagoras, Bach, and Rilke; to mountains, oceans, dogs, birds, whales, horses, butterflies, a sixty-year-old tortoise, and a chimp named Washoe—experience the varying fate of the soul as each encounters the darkness of transcendence in this era of extinction. A brilliant crash course in philosophy, religion, literature, and culture, Concerning the Future of Souls is an absolution and an indictment, sorrowful and ecstatic. Williams will leave you wonderstruck, pondering the morality of being mortal.
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mya
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“I am definitely not smart enough to fully understand this book. But! I very much enjoyed the Devil & Azrael’s conversations/relationship. Very interesting take on life, death, and everything in between.
In hindsight, the connection between the seemingly standalone/unrelated stories became clearer. I would definitely like to re-read to go through the book with this new lens.
It was also a super quick read, which is really kind to my brain that does not hold much space for long sessions of attention.
Every story, even if its meaning wasn’t clear when I was reading, was super approachable & manageable to get through.
I think I also love Joy Williams’ writing style. Will def be delving more into her work.”
Mounir Nessim
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Laura
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“Joy Williams is and always will be my absolute favorite writer.”
About Joy Williams
Joy Williams is the author of five novels, including The Quick and the Dead and most recently Harrow, five collections of stories, including Ninety-Nine Stories of God, as well as Ill Nature, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the Paris Review’s Hadada Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which she was elected in 2008. She lives in Arizona and Wyoming.
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