Research Catalog

Title

• Excitability : selected stories, 1986-1996 / Diane Williams.

Author

Williams, Diane, 1946-

Publication

Normal, IL : Dalkey Archive Press, 1998.

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Details

Description

329 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Excitability collects the best of Diane Williams's bold, often hilarious stories of love, sex, death, and the family."--Jacket.

Subject

• Short stories

Genre/Form

Short stories

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• from This is about the body, the mind, the soul, the world, time, and fate. Lady -- The nature of the miracle -- Orgasms -- All American -- The kind you know forever -- The hero -- Ten feet from it -- Dropping the Masters -- Baby -- Cloud -- Forty thousand dollars -- Pornography -- Here's another ending -- Glass of fashion -- Passage of the soul -- Screaming -- The divine right -- Power -- What is it when God speaks? -- To die -- A contribution to the theory of sex -- Marriage and the family -- Oh, my God, the rapture! -- The future of the illusion -- Boys! -- Ultimate object -- Again -- The nub -- Mystery of the universe -- Egg -- Science and sin or love and understanding.
• from Some sexual success stories plus other stories in which God might choose to appear. The limits of the world -- My highest mental achievement -- Clean -- The good man -- Pussy -- Turning -- The dog -- The man -- Really, really, really -- The courage of a woman -- The circumcision -- Spanish -- A field that can never be exhausted -- They were naked again -- The meaning of life -- The hag was transformed by love -- The mistake -- Icky -- Ore -- The care of myself -- Crush -- A progress in spirituality -- The band-aid and the piece of gum -- Torah -- Jeweling -- Sex solves problems -- Seraphim -- My radiant girl -- Bloom -- The strangest and the most powerful -- Ha -- The revision -- The time of harmony, or Crudité -- Beyond principle -- Scratching the head -- Idea -- It becomes true -- Going wild -- Coronation -- Happy -- The case of the cold murderer -- The leader -- Machinery -- Perfect.
• from The stupefaction. An opening chat -- The key to happiness -- The blessing -- Eero -- The idealist -- A moment of panic -- O rock! -- Luxuries -- The guider of the prick -- Speech -- For Diane -- Plural -- The transformation -- Gods of the earth at home -- Desperately trying to lie down -- I am a learned person -- Careful -- What knowledge is most worth having? -- A more detailed account of this is out of the question -- The fuck -- The goal -- My reaction to life -- The dirty necklace -- The masturbator -- Okeydoke -- The fuss -- Thank you -- The primary intuition -- The builder -- The answer to the question -- The suitor.
• The stupefaction (a novella).

ISBN

1564781976 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^98022015^

OCLC

39169946

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library