The visiting privilege : new and collected stories / Joy Williams.

This is a Borzoi book.

Collected stories: Taking care -- The lover -- Summer -- Preparation for a Collie -- The wedding -- The yard boy -- Shepherd -- Train -- The excursion -- Winter chemistry -- Shorelines -- The farm -- Escapes -- Rot -- The skater -- Lu-Lu -- The little winter -- Health -- White -- The blue men -- The last generation -- Honored guest -- Congress -- Marabou -- The visiting privilege -- Substance -- Charity -- Anodyne -- ACK -- The other week -- Hamer -- Fortune -- Bromeliads -- New stories: Brass -- The girls -- Revenant -- The mission -- Another season -- Dangerous -- In the park -- Cats and dogs -- The bridgetender -- Souvenir -- The country -- The mother call -- Craving.

Thirty-three stories drawn from three much-lauded collections, and another thirteen appearing here for the first time in book form. Forty-six stories in all, far and away the most comprehensive volume in her long career, showcasing her crisp, elegant prose, her dark wit, and her uncanny ability to illuminate our world through characters and situations that feel at once peculiar and foreign and disturbingly familiar.

English.