Escapes

Escapes by Williams, Joy. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780679733317.

These prize winning stories confirm what readers of State Of Grace and Taking Care already suspected: that Joy Williams is a writer of unparalleled empathy and emotional candor, who can render the hopeless and uncomprehending love between a little girl and her alcoholic mother, the panicky restlessness of a couple trying to outrun the exhaustion of their marriage, or the quiet unease of a man watching a vintage car disintegrate in his living room with a sureness of pitch that it at once heartbreaking and elating.