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| Author | Joy Williams |
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| Genre | Literary fiction |
Publication date | January 25, 1989 |
| Pages | 168 |
| ISBN | 9780679733317 |
Escapes is a 1989 short story collection by Joy Williams, published by Atlantic Monthly Press. Williams' included short story of the same name was published in Granta in 1986. [1]
Los Angeles Times stated that "Williams' strength is in her purity of writing, her elegant melancholia," calling her a "gorgeous writer and a master of the short story," and found lots of "elegant agony, Joan Didion agony" in her pieces. [2]
Publishers Weekly found "in these 12 observant tales—many about sickness, lies and death—the subtle but stunning moments of recognition and/or adjustment that occur during precarious dealings between lovers or spouses, parents and offspring." [3]