Book jacket image for Beautiful Days by Zach Williams

Doubleday

9780385550147

STARRED REVIEW

Beautiful Days

Zach Williams lets each of these 10 short stories unfold at their own quirky pace—like alien insects inching their way out of cocoons.

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Review of ‘Beautiful Days’

There's a quiet intensity to the way Zach Williams crafts short fiction, like a coiled spring ready to snap, or a snake about to strike. You can sense tension lurking like a camouflaged animal in the careful prose and dreamy strangeness of the worlds Williams builds.

In Beautiful Days, his first collection, Williams delivers intensity…

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3 short story collections as brilliant as summer lightning
With the swiftness of a summer storm, the short stories in these collections electrify and illuminate.

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