Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories

By: Barry Hannah

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Synopsis: A definitive, career-spanning, best-of tribute to a master of the modern American short story, featuring work from his final unpublished collection. A fitting summation of one of America&’s greatest short story masters, this towering tribute features stories from Airships, Captain Maximus, Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome, and Barry Hannah&’s final unfinished collection, Long, Last, Happy. The astonishingly varied stories in this collection span nearly five decades of unremitting brilliance. Praised for writing &“the most consistently interesting sentences of any writer in America&” (Sven Birkerts), Hannah&’s ferocious, glittering prose and sui generis worldview introduced readers to a literary New South—a fictional landscape that encompasses &“women, God, lust, race, nature, gay Confederates, good old boys, bad old boys, guns, animals, fishing, fighting, cars, pestilence, surrealism, gritty realism, the future, and the past . . . tossed together in glorious juxtapositions&” (Vanity Fair). Long, Last, Happy confirms Barry Hannah as one of our most brilliant voices. &“Hannah is the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction; an electrifying Mark Twain—a wailing genius of literary twang, reverb, feedback, and general sonic unholiness that results in grace notes so piercing you heart melts like an overloaded amp.&” —Interview