Bibliographic Description
85.08.W014: Williams – Taking Care
TAKING | CARE | [ornament 0.8 x 2.7] | SHORT STORIES by | Joy Williams | VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, August 1985
128 leaves, pp. [10] 1-3 4-11 12-15 16-27 28-31 32-36 37-39 40-48 49-51 52-65 66-69 70-76 77-79 80-94 95-97 98-109 110-113 114-123 124-27 128-142 143-145 146-152 153-155 156-171 172-175 176-191 192-195 196-209 210-213 214-230 231-233 234-244 [2]
Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b “ALSO AVAILABLE IN VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES”, π2a half-title, π2b blank, π3a title, π3b imprint, π4a dedication, π4b blank, π5a contents, π5b blank, 1-244 Taking Care: 1-11 “The Lover”, 12 blank, 13-27 “Summer”, 28 blank, 29-36 “Preparation | for a Collie”, 37-48 “The Wedding”, 49-65 “Woods”, 66 blank, 67-76 “Shepherd”, 77-94 “Train”, 95-109 “The Excursion”, 110 blank, 111-123 “The Yard Boy”, 124 blank, 125-142 “Winter Chemistry”, 143-152 “Shorelines”, 153-171 “Building”, 172 blank, 173-191 “Traveling to | Pridesup”, 192 blank, 193-209 “The Farm”, 210 blank, 211-230 “Breakfast”, 231-244 “Taking Care”; χ1a blank, χ1b about the author.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by J.B. McCourtney.
Copyright: © 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982. ISBN: 0-394-72912-9. Price: $5.95. Taking Care was first published by Random House, 1982.
Copies: JDP 1.1 (presumed)
Blurbs
- (front cover) Hypnotic…one of our most remarkable storytellers. – Ann Beattie
- Prose of indiscriminate radiance….These stories seem closest in spirit to Flannery O’Connor and Joyce Carol Oates. Like fine music, they circumvent the intellect…we gaze directly into the soul of her characters. – The Washington Post Book World
- Beneath the beautiful surface of Joy Williams’ work, there is a half-spoken undercurrent. She catches, better than anyone writing today, the ominous vision at the corner of the eye, and makes it inevitable. – Mary Lee Settle
- Wonderful, crisp writing, consistently percipient and witty….The final two stories, one a delicate treasure, the other overflowing with mad comic energy, are alone worth the price of the book. – The New York Times Book Review
- Uncommonly good stories: sharp-edged, smart about life, and mitred into this excellent collection with great care. – The Chicago Tribuine
- These stories are so chillingly astute about the question of love that one wonders if one has ever really thought about love before, much less been in love before. – Jim Harrison