The Pelican Child by Joy Williams HARDBACK 9780525657583

The Pelican Child\nby Joy Williams\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Joy Williams\nTitle: The Pelican Child\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nPublisher: Alfred A. Knopf\nPublication year: 2025\nISBN-13: 9780525657583\nISBN-10: 0525657584\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD \u2022 A razor-sharp new collection of stories of visionary childhood misfits and struggling adult dreamers from this legendary writer of \u201Cperfectly indescribable fiction . . . To read Williams is to look into the abyss\u201D (The Atlantic).\n\n\u201CNight was best, for, as everyone knows, but does not tell, the sobbing of the earth is most audible at night.\u201D \u201CMen are but unconscious machines and they perform their cruelties so effortlessly.\u201D \u201CCar.