{"product_id":"ninety-nine-stories-of-god-joy-williams-9781947793170","title":"Ninety-Nine Stories of God","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams\u003c\/strong\u003e has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In \u003cem\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/em\u003e, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the \u003cem\u003eBook of Common Prayer\u003c\/em\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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joy Williams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1947793179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781947793170\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tin House Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Joy Williams","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48459667439871,"sku":"9781947793170","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_031f5509-ea6c-4c11-9e56-a81c2c8502ac.jpg?v=1777411140","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ninety-nine-stories-of-god-joy-williams-9781947793170","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}