Bøker av Diane Williams

Diane Williams, "godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), returns with 33 short, brilliant stories. In Williams' stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life. In perfectly honed sentences, with a sly and occasionally wild wit, Williams shows us how any moment of any day can open onto disappointment, pleasure, and possibility.

Profiled by The New Yorker, and The New York Times, and frequently published in the likes of Granta, Harper¿s, The Paris Review, the London Review of Books, and The White Review, Diane Williams is the most significant flash fiction writer in the US today. Literary reviewers, editors, booksellers, and readers will know her name and be delighted that she is finally being published in the UK.For readers of Lydia Davis, Mary Gaitskill, Kathryn Scanlan, Amy Hempel, and George Saunders.

WARNING ! This book will change your life ! Diane's story is a tribute to the human spirit in the face of adversity. Her remarkable journey grips you from the first page to the last, as she faces the knowledge of a large brain tumour and the truths about herself. BrainStorm is a testament, a poetic story of the courage and indomitable spirit of a woman who recovers amazingly from brain surgery, faces her demons and changes her life. If you have ever had a gut wrenching hardship in your life and felt like you were lost, then get this book ! Diane reveals her step by step process for overcoming the obstacles she faced, and the amazing happiness that awaited her on the other side. Go ! Now ! And get this book !

"Williams delivers visionary insights into what it means to be human in stories as short as one or two pages. Her startling sentences often function like wake-up trumpet blasts, and her latest collection of ultra-short masterworks is a container for the elliptical, the magisterial, the voluptuous, and the profane. Set in cafâes and houses, taxicabs and gardens, the stories of Diane Williams, "the godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), deliver moments of extraordinary beauty and wisdom"--

With over three hundred new and previously published short stories as well as three novellas, The Collected Stories of Diane Williams brings together distilled works of ';unsettling brilliance' (Vanity Fair) that have rewritten the rules of American short fiction.From Ben Marcus' introduction to The Collected Stories of Diane Williams:';Diane Williams has spent her long, prolific career concocting fictions of perfect strangeness, most of them no more than a page long. She's a hero of the form: the sudden fiction, the flash fiction, whatever it's being called these days. The stories are short. They defy logic. They thumb their nose at conventional sense, or even unconventional sense. But if sense is in short supply in these texts, that leaves more room for splendor and sorrow. These stories upend expectations and prize enigma and the uncanny above all else. The Williams epiphany should be patented, or bottledon the other hand, it should also be regulated and maybe rationed, because it's severe. It's a rare feeling her stories trigger, but it's a keen and deep and welcome one, the sort of feeling that wakes us up to complication and beauty and dissonance and fragility.'

Famous for her works of "flash fiction" which capture life, love, and contradiction in a single page, Diane Williams continues to forge her own innovative tradition in this new collection. Including over three dozen short stories along with three novellas, Romancer Erector is her boldest collection to date. Here she once again astonishes us with her distinctive voice, detached yet fiercely intimate. As one critic writes: "the effect is original, as if a strange little memory has insinuated itself into the reader's own memory, to remain there...incapable of assimilation." Like intricately wrapped gifts, these tales deliver the hidden, the haunted, the charms, the bell, the mansions inside of the human heart.