PARIAH AND OTHER STORIES
Book ID/图书代码： 06000015B79290
English Summary/英文概要： Ten poignant and perceptive stories from one of the most distinctive voices in Southern literature.
In these deeply affecting tales, Joan Williams captures with heart-wrenching clarity the pain and confusion of characters struggling to come to terms with a changing world. “The Morning and the Evening,” which would later be expanded into Williams’s award-winning novel of the same name, is an exquisite and unsettling portrait of a mute man’s isolation. In “Spring Is Now,” a Mississippi town grapples with its prejudices as integration becomes a reality. “No Love for the Lonely” is the touching and gently humorous story of a bachelor liberated and bewildered by the death of his overbearing sister. In the vivid and unsettling title story, a troubled housewife faces her demons and mourns the life she never had.
Graceful, elegiac, and authentic, the stories of Joan Williams are marked by their compassion and clear-eyed insight. With remarkable skill and an astonishing generosity of spirit, she transforms the quiet lives of ordinary men and women into dazzling works of art.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书包含十个独立的小故事。每个故事人物都挣扎着适应变化的世界，并承受着各种痛苦和困惑。作者则将这种复杂的心理通过文字表现得淋漓尽致。《晨昏》是作者之后同名长篇小说的原型；《现在是春天》讲述了一个密西西比小镇的故事；《寂寞的人没有爱》讲述了一个单身汉幽默而感人的故事；《贱民》讲述了陷入困境的家庭主妇直面魔鬼并哀悼自己从未享受过的生活的故事。(LYR)
Awards/获奖情况：“作者的故事展现了美丽的内心世界。进入角色的世界就像是进入了一座老旧的剧院，墙上闪烁着动人的光芒，荧幕上正在放映动人的故事。我喜欢这些故事。”——Bobbie Ann Mason
“Joan Williams’s stories are beautiful interiors of the mind and heart. Going into the world of one of her characters is like going into an old movie theatre, with interesting glowing lights on the walls and an absolutely enthralling show going on. I love these stories.” —Bobbie Ann Mason
About the Author/作者介绍： Joan Williams (1928–2004)，著名小说家。其作品《晨昏》曾入围国家图书奖。作者出生在孟菲斯，其作品深受母亲的影响，创作的小说大部分都发生在田纳西州。曾获得John P. Marquand First Novel Award，美国艺术和文学学会授予的奖金及古根海姆奖金。
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