{"product_id":"the-changeling-paperback-1","title":"The Changeling - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eKaren Russell\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlmost half a century later, \u003ci\u003eThe Changeling\u003c\/i\u003e remains as haunting and as visionary as on the day it was first published. Joy Williams is a virtuosic stylist and a singular thinker―a genius in every sense of the word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen we first meet Pearl--young in years but advanced in her drinking--she's on the lam, sitting at a hotel bar in Florida, throwing back gin and tonics with her infant son cradled in the crook of her arm. But her escape is brief, and the relief she feels at having fled her abusive husband, and the Northeastern island his family calls home, doesn't last for long. Soon she's being shepherded back. The island, for Pearl, is a place of madness and pain, and her round-the-clock drinking spurs on the former even if it dulls the latter. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eThe Changeling\u003c\/i\u003e, Joy Williams has blended, as Rick Moody writes, \"the arresting improbabilities of magic realism, with the surrealism of the folkloric revival . . . and with the modernist foreboding of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e,\" and created something entirely original and entirely consuming.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoy Williams\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Quick and the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently \u003ci\u003eHarrow\u003c\/i\u003e, five collections of stories, including \u003ci\u003eConcerning the Future of Souls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNinety-Nine Stories of God\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eIll Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, a book of essays that was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Among her many honors are the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, the Kirkus Prize for Fiction, the Paris Review's Hadada Award, and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which she was elected in 2008. She lives in Arizona and Wyoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 10, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51999830999341,"sku":"9781963108903","price":20.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/PrABXD71Y_9781963108903.webp?v=1776584816","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-changeling-paperback-1","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}