Brad Watson – There Is Happiness (EPUB)
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Title: There Is Happiness
Author: Brad Watson
Language: English
Publication date: 2024
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9781324076438
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Short Stories, 20th Century American Fiction, American Short Stories, Short Story Collections, 21st Century American Fiction, American Short Stories – 20th Century, American Short Stories – 21st Century
Author: Brad Watson
Language: English
Publication date: 2024
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9781324076438
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, American Fiction, Short Stories, 20th Century American Fiction, American Short Stories, Short Story Collections, 21st Century American Fiction, American Short Stories – 20th Century, American Short Stories – 21st Century
A posthumous collection of beloved and never-before-read stories from a titan of contemporary Southern fiction.
“Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page,” Joy Williams writes in her introduction to this astonishing selection of Brad Watson’s published and unpublished stories: “excellent, assured, funny, startling, heartbreaking, wild,” full of “freakish flair” and “melancholy realism”—stories that give us a “glimpse” of ourselves “so surprising, so varied yet unequivocal, so ruthlessly complete, that it does awaken us in some manner, if not protect or prepare us.”
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…
“Here is a generous portion of the work of a swiftly passing lifetime. Bountiful is the deserving page,” Joy Williams writes in her introduction to this astonishing selection of Brad Watson’s published and unpublished stories: “excellent, assured, funny, startling, heartbreaking, wild,” full of “freakish flair” and “melancholy realism”—stories that give us a “glimpse” of ourselves “so surprising, so varied yet unequivocal, so ruthlessly complete, that it does awaken us in some manner, if not protect or prepare us.”
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…
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