Taking Care

From a true American master of the short story, comes a collection of disturbing, comic, and moving takes that find deeper meanings in ordinary domestic life.

In these uncommonly good stories (The Chicago Tribune) with unforgetable characters, places, and events--a young divorcee, a shared summer home, a troubled family, a wedding, the death of a pet--Williams takes her readers on journey after journey, as only she can.

Author: Joy Williams
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/12/1985
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780394729121
ISBN10: 0394729129
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Family Life | General

About the Author
Joy Williams is the author of four novels--the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001--and three other collections of stories, 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 Rea Award for the Short Story and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She was elected to the Academy in 2008. She lives in Tucson, Arizona, and Laramie, Wyoming.