“Long, Last, Happy combines the best of the
four story collections Barry Hannah published during his lifetime, four new
stories from the final manuscripts he left behind, and one early-career story
never published in volume form. Here, a man’s 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—Hannah’s 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, hellraising, and a deep devotion to the
art of storytelling.”
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