I Liked Rex
Diane Williams
We send all orders via Royal Mail: within the UK, choose from 1st Class, 2nd Class or Special Delivery; for the rest of the world, International Standard or International Tracked. Delivery and packaging charges are calculated automatically at the checkout.
To collect orders in person from the Bookshop, choose Click and Collect at the checkout.
From the publisher
Diane Williams is one of the most consistently compelling and original writers of short fiction working today. The thirty-six new stories in I Liked Rex are essentially mystical, showing the potential for revelation in everyday subject matters – desire, money, family or work. Williams has an extraordinary ear for the rhythms of speech, and an unerring instinct for the crucial detail, the startling turn that allows her to unfold the life of a character, or the history of a relationship, in a few brief sentences. These stories are as uncanny as they are delightful.
In her introduction, Merve Emre calls Diane Williams’s work ‘the last laugh of modernism’s avant-garde, a comic blend of Stein’s rigor, Barnes’s decadence, and Stevens’s philosophical grandeur, laced with a cheerful frankness that belongs to Williams, and Williams alone’.