Thirty stories, collected in one volume for the very first time, from
one of the South's best known and most acclaimed short story writers.
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. 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. 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.
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. 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.
