Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty

by Diane Williams

Book Overview

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, Williams's unsettling stories?a cryptic meeting between neighbors, a woman's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1938073037
• ISBN13: 9781938073038
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: McSweeney's
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 7.4"