Description: From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor Zach Williams comes a striking and savage debut story collection that confronts parenthood, mortality, and life’s broken promises.A couple awakens in a home in the woods to find themselves rapidly aging as their toddler remains unchanged. A work-worn employee navigates conspiracy theories and the threat of violence in an abandoned office. A tour guide leads a troublesome group to an ancient structure, apparently nonhuman in origin, discovering along the way that the most mysterious creatures of all are right beside him.These ten stories show the fallibility of time and how reality reveals itself behind the gauze of a dream—or a nightmare. Throughout, Williams illustrates how quickly we come to the edges of our patience and endurance, the hidden damages lurking in the shadows of the everyday, the distances we must travel to protect our families, and the tenuousness of even our deepest relationships. Williams sees the perversity in the mundane and dares readers to confront the power—and beauty—of time’s relentless movement.With exquisite prose and a lacerating wit, Beautiful Days holds a mirror to the many absurdities of being human and refuses to let us look away.
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Book Title: Beautiful Days : Stories
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Short Stories (Single Author), Family Life, Literary
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2024
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 13.2 Oz
Author: Zach Williams
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.7 in
Format: Hardcover
