The Changeling

Joy Williams

Original title: The changeling

first published 1978 Doubleday, 1978 201 pages

"Forty years later, The Changeling is no less haunting and no less visionary than the day it was published, but it has only become clearer that Joy Williams is a virtuosic stylist and a singular thinker?a genius in every sense of the word. When 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 i...

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The Changeling edition · 2018 · Profile Books Ltd · 9781788161343
The Changeling hardcover · 2018 · Tin House Books · 336 pages · 9781941040898
El hijo cambiado paperback · 2017 · Ediciones Alpha Decay, S.A. · 288 pages · 9788494644207
The Changeling edition · 2008 · Small Pr Distribution · 256 pages · 9780979995408
The changeling edition · 1978 · Doubleday · 201 pages
Changeling edition · Serpent's Tail Limited · 352 pages · 9781788161350

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