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Joy Williams: The Quick and the Dead

In Joy Williams' The Quick and the Dead, bleak and wicked comedy hides the book's religious mission, demonstrating how God and Devil can be mistaken for one another...

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By Michael Silverblatt • Jan 18, 2001 • 28m Listen

"Your idea of the devil seems to be mine of God," Flannery O'Connor once told John Hawkes. In Joy Williams' 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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    Michael Silverblatt

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