I Liked Rex
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ISBN13: 9798896230816
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Sep 1 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From the godmother of flash fiction (The Paris Review), a new collection of thirty-six cunning, captivating short stories about the mysteries of life and the human heart. One of America's most exciting violators of habit. --Los Angeles Times Fiction ought to lead us to those precipices where language fails and silence begins. You would be well advised, with a master like Williams, to take the plunge. --The New York Times Diane Williams is one of the great masters of the American short story: her tiny, coruscating tales are among the most tender, funny, peculiar, and searching works in all of contemporary literature. I Liked Rex explores sex, love, marriage, and all that comes after; it is a book about living, but more importantly, about how to be alive. Williams's genius lies as much in what is left unspoken as in what is laid out on the page; behind images of startling beauty and strangeness, entire chamber dramas of the heart unfold, and the pleasure of these sphinxlike tales comes from their unremitting mystery, which is the same mystery fundamental to life and to love. A collection of rare originality and daring, I Liked Rex is a complete and utter delight.
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