Joy Williams

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"Your idea of the devil seems to be mine of God," Flannery O'Connor once told John Hawkes. In The Quick and the Dead

(Knopf), bleak and wicked comedy hides the book's religious mission, demonstrating how God and Devil can be mistaken for one another.

Read an excerpt from The Quick and the Dead.

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Joy Williams: author, 'The Quick and the Dead'

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