The Pelican Child by Joy Williams
Stories
A collection of eleven darkly comic, dreamlike stories about childhood misfits and struggling adults. Williams sketches idiosyncratic characters — from heiresses and men suspended in schooltime memory to a haunted visitor and a strange “pelican child” — against a ruined, urgent landscape. spare, often uncanny prose explores isolation, moral decay, and small, hard-won moments of understanding without revealing outcomes.
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- Published
- 2025
- Nationality
- Unknown
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 176
- Original Language
- English
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