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Franzen's Favorite Fiction

He's on our list of great American writers, but we wanted to know: What are Jonathan Franzen's favorite books?
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Taking Care by Joy Williams

Taking Care by Joy Williams


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This collection of Williams' short stories focuses on the disturbing, comic, moving and revealing facets of ordinary domestic life in such tales as "The Farm," "Building," "The Woods" and "Preparation for a Collie." Joy Williams is the author of four novels—the most recent, The Quick and the Dead, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2001.

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Published on October 15, 2010
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