Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty

Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty by Williams, Diane. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781936365715.

In Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty, Diane Williams lays bare the urgency and weariness that shape our lives in stories honed sharper than ever. With sentences auguring revelation and explosion, Williamss unsettling stories--a cryptic meeting between neighbors, a womans sexual worries, a graveside discussion, a chimney on fire--are narrated with razor-sharp tongues and naked, uproarious irreverence. These fifty stories hum with tension, each one so taut that it threatens to snap and send the whole thing sprawling--the mess and desire, the absurdity and hilarity, the bruises and bleeding, the blushes and disappointments and secrets. An audacious, unruly tour de force, Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty cements Diane Williams position as one of the best practitioners of the short form in literature today.