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Excitability: Selected Stories 1986-1996 (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Excitability Selected Stories 19861996 - American Literature Dalkey Archive Author:Diane Williams Fiction. "Williams's miniatures cast long shadows, while offering unexpected meanings to the light which edges them"--Bradford Morrow. In these "miniatures," Williams takes the choicest bits of description, tense, and poetic language, and crafts of them a dense and multifaceted language: "Thank goodness I am deeply sincere, so I stopped laughing... more ». He had dragged me along to this refined filth of a hotel, which aroused my truest false feeling. On the way to the hotel, he was staggering and I was. If my wish is at last coming true, he is going to spring on me something that will make me feel as helpless as a human being" ("Speech").« less