{"product_id":"the-changeling-isbn-9781963108903","title":"The Changeling","description":"\u003cb\u003eAlmost half a century later, \u003ci\u003eThe Changeling\u003c\/i\u003e remains as haunting and as visionary as on the day it was first published. Joy Williams is a virtuosic stylist and a singular thinker―a genius in every sense of the word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen we first meet Pearl—young in years but advanced in her drinking—she’s on the lam, sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics with her infant son cradled in the crook of her arm. But her escape is brief, and the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband, and the Northeastern island his family calls home, doesn’t last for long. Soon she’s being shepherded back. The island, for Pearl, is a place of madness and pain, and her round-the-clock drinking spurs on the former even if it dulls the latter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Changeling\u003c\/i\u003e, Joy Williams has blended, as Rick Moody writes, “the arresting improbabilities of magic realism, with the surrealism of the folkloric revival . . . and with the modernist foreboding of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e,” and created something entirely original and entirely consuming.\u003ci\u003e\"Within a single sentence, Joy Williams can swerve from absurd profundity to wicked satire and back, all with miraculous economy and control. . . .  A startlingly alive book, even more resonant today.\"—\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eDana Spiotta\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Oprah Magazine (Editor's Pick)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An elusive but enchanting work by one of America's greatest authors.\"—\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Williams is a genius . . . The Changeling remains Williams’s fullest plunge into the uncanny and the magical. Give it a try. Let it cast its spell on you.\" —\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLincoln Michel, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Changeling\u003c\/i\u003e is not a novel. It is a shimmering postpartum hex, a vision hatched from the egg of a divinely original mind decades ago and now officially a classic. Joy Williams will be read long after we are all covered in ants.\" —\u003cb\u003eClaire Vaye Watkins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Changeling\u003c\/i\u003e is perverse and singular in the manner of all true enchantment. I have never come across anything quite like it, although its DNA is in almost all contemporary fiction that I love.\" —\u003cb\u003eKelly Link\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Joy Williams’ exquisite vision of mothers and monsters leaves me drunk with wonder. Her language is so powerful, her images so lush, my copy is dogeared on nearly every page.\"—\u003cb\u003eSamantha Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Quick and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently \u003ci\u003eHarrow\u003c\/i\u003e, five collections of stories, including \u003ci\u003eConcerning the Future of Souls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eIll Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the Paris Review’s Hadada Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which she was elected in 2008. She lives in Arizona and Wyoming.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233640952037,"sku":"NP9781963108903","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781963108903.jpg?v=1767738650","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-changeling-isbn-9781963108903","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}