There is happiness : new and selected stories

"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deserving page," Joy Williams writes in her introduction to this astonishing selection of Brad Watson's published and unpublished stories: "excellent, assured, funny, startling, heartbreaking, wild," full of "freakish flair" and "melancholy realism" -- stories that give us a "glimpse" of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 compl...