The quick and the dead

Joy Williams

first published 2000 Penguin Random House, 2001 308 pages

"Alice, Corvus, and Annabel, each a motherless child, are an unlikely circle of friends. One filled with convictions, another with loss, the third with a worldly pragmatism, they traverse an air-conditioned landscape eccentric with signs and portents - from the preservation of the living dead in a nursing home to the presentation of the dead as living in a wild-life museum - accompanied by restless, confounded adults...

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Quick and the Dead edition · 2010 · Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 9781299011847
The Quick And The Dead edition · 2002 · Vintage Books · 9780375727641
Quick and the Dead edition · 2001 · Penguin Random House · 308 pages · 9781860469374
Quick and the Dead edition · 2001 · Penguin Random House · 308 pages · 9781860468551
The quick and the dead edition · 2000 · A. Knopf · 307 pages

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