Further Joy

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In eleven expertly crafted stories, John Brandon gives us a stunning assortment of men and women at the edge of possibility gamblers and psychics, wanderers and priests, all of them on the verge of finding out what they can get away with, and what they can't. Ranging from haunted deserts to alligator-filled swamps, these are stories of foul luck an

Reviews

"An impressive collection, cleareyed and penetrating." Kirkus Reviews

"Intensely readable, and enormously entertaining." Booklist

"John Brandon's debut short story collection Further Joy is darkly entertaining, the stories poignant and remarkably accessible."
Largehearted Boy

Beautifully crafted stories" Tampa Bay Times

With his subtle portrayals of anxiety, through characters haunted by failure, Brandon has made a strength out of all those limitations and obstacles." Creative Loafing Tampa

Brandon's command of resonant frustration and fear is precise. These are stories abounding with images and situations that tap into emotional and economic anxieties, and do so with style." Minneapolis StarTribune

Brandon has continued to hone his ear for the poetry of American talk." Boston Globe

Author Bio

John Brandon's three novels are Arkansas, Citrus County, and A Million Heavens. He has spent time as the Grisham Fellow in Creative Writing at University of Mississippi, and the Tickner Writing Fellow at Gilman School, in Baltimore. His work has appeared in Oxford American, GQ, Grantland, ESPN the Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, The Believer, and numerous literary journals. He now lives in St. Paul, and teaches at Hamline University. This is his first story collection.