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      State of Grace

      by Joy Williams
      Published
      Jan 1986
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      260
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      NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NOMINEEʉۢ This "beautifully crafted" (The New York Times Book Review), haunting, profoundly disquieting novel manages to be at once sparse and lush, to combine Biblical simplicity with Gothic intensity and strangeness.

      It is the story of Kate, despised by her mother, bound to her father by ties stronger and darker than blood. It is the story of her attempted escapes—in detached sexual encounters, at a Southern college populated by spoiled and perverse beauties, and in a doomed marriage to a man who cannot understand what she is running from. Witty, erotic, searing acute, State of Grace bears the inimitable stamp of one of our finest and most provocative writers.

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      Feb 1990 Vintage ISBN 0679726195
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      First Edition Jan 1986 Scribner ISBN 0684186454
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      Apr 2011 Knopf ISBN 0307787877
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      Apr 2011 Vintage ISBN B004J4X7JE
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