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The Pelican Child: Longlisted for the 2025 National Book Award
By (author) Joy Williams
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Nominated for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award Lauded as the best story writer of our time, Joy Williams returns with a taut collection that responds to our modern dilemmas with her signature dry wit and deftness of touch. In sinister and shifting landscapes, we meet souls lost and found: from the twin heiresses of a dirty industrial fortune, who must commit a violent act in recompense for their family's deeds, to a newly grown man who still revolves in a dreamscape of his childhood boarding-school innocence, to the ""pelican child"", who lives with the bony, ill-tempered Baba Yaga in a little hut on chicken legs. For readers of Lorrie Moore, Mary Gaitskill and George Saunders, these haunted stories examine the instincts separating us from the beastly and the divine.
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Publisher | Profile Books Ltd
Published date | 4 Dec 2025
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Format | Digital download
Pages | 0
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Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-8052-2856-1
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BISAC | fiction / literary
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