Bücher von Joy Williams

Joy Williams offers ninety-nine illuminations on mortality as she brings her powers of observation to Azrael, the Angel of Death and transporter of souls. Balancing the extraordinary and the humble, the bizarre and the beatific, the book presents Azrael as a thoughtful and troubled protagonist as he confronts the holy impossibility of his task, his uneasy relationship with Death and his friendship with the Devil. In this follow-up to Williams' 99 Stories of God, a collection of connected beings - ranging from ordinary people to great artists such as Kafka, Nietzche, Bach and Rilke to dogs, birds, horses and butterflies - experience the varying fate of the soul, transient yet everlasting. Profound, sorrowful, witty and ecstatic, Concerning the Future of Souls will leave readers awestruck in their confrontation of life in the face of death.

»Joy Williams ist ein Geschenk.« Bernd Ulrich, Die Zeit Kate flieht - vor der unnachgiebigen Liebe ihres Predigervaters und um ihr Leben zu finden, die Wirklichkeit. An der sonnendurchglühten Golfküste jobbt sie als Kellnerin, schläft mit namenlosen Bekanntschaften. Im Herbst geht sie aufs College und tritt einer Studentinnenverbindung bei. Da ist, lebenszugewandter als sie, die Schar ihrer Mitstudentinnen, da ist ihr einziger Freund Corinthian Brown, der als Nachtwächter in einem schäbigen Zoo arbeitet. Und da ist Grady, ihr Mann. In einem Wohnanhänger im Wald schaffen sich die beiden eine bröckelnde Idylle, während Kate ihr erstes Kind erwartet. Was ist es, das sie ihm dort gesteht? Entkommt sie ihren Erinnerungen? Immer tiefer führen diese Fragen ins labyrinthische Innere eines Romans, der auch Jahre nach seinem Erscheinen nichts von seiner dunkel gleißenden Intensität verloren hat. Mit Stories hat Joy Williams im Frühjahr 2023 begeistert. Nun erscheint erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung ihr Debütroman: so fesselnd wie zeitlos in seiner vollkommenen Originalität.  »Joy Williams ist die vielleicht bedeutendste Schriftstellerin dieser Zeit. Schwer zu sagen, was schockierender ist: ihre historische Unersetzlichkeit oder ihr Talent.« The New York Times »Der beste Roman des Jahres.« Truman Capote >In der Gnade< ist mir noch lange nachgegangen.«  Jonathan Franzen

»Joy Williams ist einfach ein Wunder.« Raymond Carver Eine Nacht lang erkunden zwei Mädchen einen Zug mit Bar und Zauberbühne und lernen dabei ihr künftiges Leben kennen. Eine Frau, ratlos, plötzlich schlaflos, wird von der Faszination für eine nächtliche Radiosendung erfasst, in der, so glaubt sie, all ihre Fragen gelöst werden könnten. Von der Gesellschaft geächtet, schließen sich die Mütter mehrerer verurteilter Mörder zu einem Außenseiterclub zusammen. Seite für Seite, Satz für Satz führen uns diese Geschichten ins Unvorhersehbare hinein, verzweigen sich in die Tiefe wie Romane: unverwechselbar im Ton, beunruhigend und komisch zugleich. >Stories< beweist ihre absolute Meisterschaft.

ExcerptIn today's society, we have created a generation of children that have been empowered to know their rights. They have been informed through television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the Internet that they are not only children, but also smaller human beings that have certain privileges. Society may have meant it for the good of the children, but the children have used and abused these rights. We have been very careful not to hurt the children's feelings, label them, ignore them, disrespect them, or expect too much from them. With this mindset, we have made these children "mini gods"! The children now feel they can do any and everything they please and, their rights will protect them.According to Webster, confusion means disorder. This bewilderment is a prevalent term that exists in many school settings. When confusion enters into the learning environment, it is difficult to teach the required subject matter. Classroom Discipline without Confusion will place order and clarity in your classroom. Simple techniques and strategies will allow you to get control and make teaching enjoyable, successful and fun!Confusion and chaos have entered like thieves in the night to rob our classrooms of dignity and respect. We are losing some of our finest teachers, all at the expense of enforcing the rights of the children. Fighting, weapon possession, disobedience towards school rules, property and authority figures seem to be the order of the day. Society seems to be in limbo, shock and it does not know what to do with children that are now out of control. Many people fail to realize many schools have disruptive children. Society wants the schools to teach all students regardless of what problems they have or from where they come. There is a scarcity of books on how to reach and teach these children many of whom do not want to be taught.Classroom Discipline without Confusion addresses these issues and concerns. It takes a realistic look at the children that are growing up in today's society and tries to address their needs and learning patterns. It is filled with everyday survival techniques that can be used effectively in many classroom settings. The techniques given are not the conventional methods that most people use. They are creative strategies designed to teach the hard to reach. They are methods that sap the confusion from the environment, so you can quickly access any problems.

Most of us watch with mild concern the fast disappearing wild spaces or the recurrence of pollution - related crises such as oil spills, toxic blooms in fertilizer-enriched rivers, and the increasing violence in our own country. Joy Williams does much more than watch. With guts and passion, she sounds the alarm over the general disconnection from the natural world that our consumer culture has created. The culling of elephants, electron-probed chimpanzees, and the vanishing wetlands are just some of her subjects. Razor-sharp, controversial, scathingly opinionated, and refreshingly unafraid of conflict, Williams refuses to compromise as she lashes out at the greed of Americans and decries our own turpitude. It is not enough to mourn the passing of the natural world, Ill Nature shouts. Get out of our homes and our cars and our cubicles and do something...now.