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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...
By Michael Silverblatt • • 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.
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