{"product_id":"ninety-nine-stories-of-god-joy-williams-9781941040355","title":"Ninety-Nine Stories of God","description":"\u003cb\u003ePulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the \u003ci\u003eBook of Common Prayer\u003c\/i\u003e as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams's characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for Him when He's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joy Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1941040357\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781941040355\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tin House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/08\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2016 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2016 pg. 98","brand":"Joy Williams","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48153874989311,"sku":"9781941040355","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8684798e-359a-4910-858f-16b120d43bc6.jpg?v=1770786420","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ninety-nine-stories-of-god-joy-williams-9781941040355","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}