State of Grace

WILLIAMS,J

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Author
WILLIAMS,J
Publish Date
02/01/1990
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
RNDMHSE
Number of Pages
272
Edition
Reissue
ISBN-10
0679726195
ISBN-13
9780679726197
SKU
9780679726197

Description

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEE • This "beautifully crafted" (The New York Times Book Review), haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness.

It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapes—in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern college populated by spoiled and perverse beauties, and in a doomed marriage to a man who cannot understand what she is running from. Witty, erotic, searing acute, State of Grace bears the inimitable stamp of one of our finest and most provocative writers.