Description
In the American desert, three motherless misfit teenagers—Alice, Corvus, and Annabel—form an unlikely circle of friends and set out on a series of strange, darkly comic “life-and-death” adventures. As they move through an air-conditioned landscape thick with signs, portents, and unsettling institutions, the adults around them unravel in parallel: grief turns literal, desire collides with haunting, and survival becomes its own kind of moral puzzle. Joy Williams’s sharp, luminous prose blends the ominous with the funny, using the boundaries between living and dead to explore how people search for meaning, love, and belonging. With nature routed and the ambiguities of existence kept deliberately unresolved, this novel offers a panoramic, contemporary vision of destiny—one that feels both magical and uncomfortably true.
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paperback
Knopf
Published Jan 1, 2000
330 pages
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Details
First Published
2000
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams.