{"product_id":"9798896230816","title":"I Liked Rex","description":"By: Diane Williams     \u003chr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom “the godmother of flash fiction\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e), a new collection of thirty-six cunning, captivating short stories about the mysteries of life and the human heart.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“One of America’s most exciting violators of habit.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiane 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. \u003ci\u003eI Liked Rex\u003c\/i\u003e is Williams’s newest collection, which explores sex, love, marriage, and all that comes after; it is a book about living, but more importantly, about how to be alive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these stories, a woman sees her soon-to-be ex-husband on the street, walking patiently at the end of a line of geese; a mother implores a total stranger to watch over her small child at the beach; a guest arrives at an orgy uninvited, and takes a nap beneath a dusty carpet; a woman reflects on her life with a man who used to belong to another, but is hers now—though can anyone really possess anyone else, truly? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliams’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 sphinx-like tales comes from their unremitting mystery, which is the same mystery fundamental to life and to love. A collection of rare originality and daring, \u003ci\u003eI Liked Rex\u003c\/i\u003e is a complete and utter delight.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"US - Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":49019823161571,"sku":"DTRPRUS-9798896230816","price":109.0,"currency_code":"HKD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1778\/4925\/files\/9798896230816.jpg?v=1779883974","url":"https:\/\/buybookbook.com\/zh-mo\/products\/9798896230816","provider":"買書書 BuyBookBook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}