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Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty
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In Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williams's unsettling storiesa cryptic meeting between neighbors, a woman's sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fireare narrated with razor-sharp tongues and naked, uproarious irreverence.
These fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawlingthe mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams' position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today.
These fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawlingthe mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams' position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mysterious, funny, volatile, affecting, unsettling and exhilarating. To my mind, Williams' maybe unparalleled attention to language has the effect of delivering emotion and sensation more directly to the reader, rather than adding distance or abstraction. Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty is even sharper, tighter and more distilled than her previous work, which is already some of the tightest, sharpest and most thoroughly distilled being written today.