{"product_id":"vicky-swanky-is-a-beauty-9781936365715","title":"Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVicky Swanky Is a Beauty\u003c\/strong\u003e by Williams, Diane. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781936365715.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\nThese 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"McSweeney's","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45788763160629,"sku":"ByrdShop_1936365715","price":57.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781936365715_16ee37ac-1f0c-4ed7-b51f-24e8eac36b1c.jpg?v=1784750890","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/vicky-swanky-is-a-beauty-9781936365715","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}