There is happiness : new and selected stories
Call Number
- FICTION WATS (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : W W Norton & Co. Inc., [2024]
Physical Description
xiii, 288 pages ; 23 cm
Summary
A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction.
"Brad Watson was a master of dark comedy, extraordinary lyricism, appalling grotesquerie, and unabashed vulnerability; a sublime prose stylist whose novels and stories drew upon the fecundity and moodiness of the South. Male meltdown, carrying with it the possibility of being saved by Dolly Parton or some other woman or maybe by animal friends, is a theme, as is young love and its disillusionment, as are strange neighbors who cannot be understood. A leopard that consumes its zookeeper, pronghorn antelope tenderly transporting the poop of their young, insufferably articulate birds and restless, tolerant dogs -- this is also eco-fiction of a very peculiar sort, in which nature reassures, transcends, and finally escapes judging or being judged by us." --
Contents
- Dying for dolly
- Eykelboom
- The Zookeeper and the leopard
- Seeing eye
- Crazy Horse
- Ludovico taking his bath
- Binary eclipse
- Are you Mr. Lonelee?
- Agnes of Bob
- Terrible argument
- Noon
- Visitation
- Aliens in the prime of their lives
- Bill
- Uncle Willem
- Last days of the dog-men
- Apology
- There is happiness.