Taking Care
Joy Williams · 1982
People on the edge of sanity, of love, of the natural world. Williams writes with the compression of poetry and the menace of a rattlesnake.
The case against
Williams deals one mood from a marked deck: dread, story after story. Characters drift through alcohol and failing marriages toward endings that withhold resolution on principle, and after five stories you can predict the swerve into menace the way you predict weather. Read singly they are flawless; read straight through, the collection flattens into one long oncoming storm.
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