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There Is Happiness: New And Selected Stories
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Watson Renders The Human Experience With Pathos And Love. A. M. Homes, Author Of The Unfoldinga Posthumous Collection Of Beloved And NeverBeforeRead 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The Deserving Page, Joy Williams Writes In Her Introduction To This Astonishing Selection Of Brad WatsonS Published And Unpublished Stories: Excellent, Assured, Funny, Startling, Heartbreaking, Wild, Full Of Freakish Flair And Melancholy RealismStories That Give Us A Glimpse Of Ourselves So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 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 DogsThis Is Also EcoFiction Of A Very Peculiar Sort, In Which Nature Reassures, Transcends, And Finally Escapes Judging Or Being Judged By Us.RollerCoastering From The Mournful To The Comical (Sometimes In The Same Paragraph), WatsonS Work Is Both Embedded In A Literary Heritage Tied To Place And At Home In A Universal Literature Of The Absurd. His Stories Waltz With Lovely And Strange Melancholy, Infused With Wit And Astonishing Beauty. There Is Happiness Embodies The Twisted Hilarity And Undeniable Grace Of An Underrecognized Literary Genius.
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