The Bear Bryant Funeral Train - Brad Vice

A woman contemplates the difference between the madness of the Klan and a mob of escaped asylum inmates. A young rancher’s son seeks to escape a hardscrabble Texas life through a football scholarship. A cookbook author struggles to perfect a new recipe and gives new meaning to the phrase "made with love." An aging farmer meddles in voodoo while a young software expert flirts with corporate espionage.

The former Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection (famously pulped by the University of Georgia Press in 2005) is now resurrected. The nine original stories—praised in national reviews and by authors such as Brad Watson and Margot Livesey—are presented as they were originally intended and are augmented by two previously unpublished tales. Also included are an introductory essay by Vice, explaining for the first time his side of the controversy, and supplemental materials that provide context. Ultimately, however, readers will judge this book by its primary powers: the strength and integrity of the storytelling—vibrant, exciting, and, ultimately, original.

ABOUT BRAD VICE

Brad Vice’s stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the Southern Review, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, and Stories from the Blue Moon Café, Volume III. Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Vice now lives in Starkville, Mississippi.