Alice, Corvus and Annabel, each a motherless child, form an unlikely friendship. Alice is filled with convictions, Corvus with loss and Amabel with a worldly pragmatism. Thrown together one summer, they make their way through an air-conditioned landscape electric with signs and portents from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum and peopled by restless, disengaged adults. Joy Williams is one of America s finest and most original writers and, in ...
Read More
Alice, Corvus and Annabel, each a motherless child, form an unlikely friendship. Alice is filled with convictions, Corvus with loss and Amabel with a worldly pragmatism. Thrown together one summer, they make their way through an air-conditioned landscape electric with signs and portents from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wildlife museum and peopled by restless, disengaged adults. Joy Williams is one of America s finest and most original writers and, in this story of the life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the Texas desert, she has written her most eloquent novel. Both funny and serious, The Quick and the Dead, a strange panorama of contemporary life seen through the looking-glass of adolescence, explores the vagaries of love, our thirst for meaning and the peculiar paths by which we are all led to our destinies.
Read Less
Add this copy of The Quick and the Dead to cart. $71.05, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by The Harvill Press.
