{"product_id":"long-last-happy-new-and-collected-stories-9780802119681","title":"Long  Last  Happy: New and Collected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecognized with a PEN\/Malamud Award for Excellence in short fiction  Barry Hannah was a master of the American short story. He was also one of the most important writers of the Souths post-Faulkner generation  introducing a world in which Mississippi pier fisherman  small-town prevaricators  and veterans of American wars---Civil  Vietnam  and Gulf---met a mythic  mold-breaking voice with echoes of Beckett  bebop  and the Bible. He has paved the way for a new generation of young writers  and his death in March 2010 remains an irrevocable loss to American letters.  Now  combining the best of the four story cllections he published during his lifetime  four new stories from the final manuscripts he left behind  and one early-career story never published in volume form  Long  Last  Happy is a feast for readers new and old. Here  a mans estranged wife buzzes his house in her airplane  and a tailgate party can turn suddenly Biblical. The Confederate corporal in love with his general  the retired surgeon turning canine  the teenage boy rebelling against the \"gloomy John Birch literature\" of his surroundings  who ends up looking after an eccentric  beautiful lush---Hannahs characters occupy the intersection of heartbreak and surreal comedy. In his last works  set in a Mississippi college town terrorized by mysterious arson  the ghosts of history and devilments of love  lust  and drink walk the streets. Throughout  his ferocious  glittering prose maps a literary New South---a fictional landscape burning with racial unease  sex  love  hell-raising  and a deep devotion to the art of storytelling  The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has called Hannah a \"mendacity-battling Colossus.\" Long  Last  Happy serves as the definitive collection of Hannahs finest short fiction and confirms that he was one our most brilliant voices until the very end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646942634037,"sku":"ByrdShop_0802119689","price":28.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780802119681.jpg?v=1781682656","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/long-last-happy-new-and-collected-stories-9780802119681","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}