Welcome to Oakland by Eric Miles Williamson

The South Carolina author has perfected the art form with his hilarious tales of ordinary people in the American South. Praise for George Singleton 'If you think you don’t like short stories, you’ve probably never read George Singleton. Assembled here for the very first time, You Want More showcases the body of work, hilarious and incisive, that has cemented George Singleton’s place among the South’s greatest living writers. These stories bear the influence of Flannery O’Connor and Raymond Carver, at other times Lewis Nordan and Donald Barthelme, and touch on the mysteries of childhood, the complexities of human relationships, and the absurdity of everyday life, its inexorable defeats and small triumphs. A lovelorn and chatty euthanasia vet arrives at a couples’ house to put down their dog, Probate a father-to-be searches his workplace-a bar-for a replacement sonogram after recording an episode of Bonanza over the original an unlikely romance sparks between a librarian and a professional bowler while they compete to win an RV a father takes his son to visit the many ex-girlfriends that could have been his mother. Now Tom Franklin introduces this master of the form with a compilation of acclaimed and prize-winning short fiction spanning twenty years and eight collections, including stories originally published in outlets like the Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, and many more. With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South.

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Welcome to Oakland by Eric Miles Williamson