Prodigals (30 page)

Greg Jackson
's work has appeared in
The New Yorker
,
Granta
, and the
Virginia Quarterly Review
. He has been a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and a resident at the MacDowell Colony, and he holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia.
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Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Wagner in the Desert

Serve-and-Volley, Near Vichy

Epithalamium

Dynamics in the Storm

Amy's Conversions

Tanner's Sisters

Summer 1984

Metanarrative Breakdown

Acknowledgments

A Note About the Author

Copyright

 

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2016 by Greg Jackson

All rights reserved

First edition, 2016

These stories previously appeared, in slightly different form, in the following publications:
The New Yorker
(“Wagner in the Desert”),
VQR
(“Serve-and-Volley, Near Vichy”), and
Granta
(“Epithalamium”).

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
by Roberto Calasso, translated by Tim Parks, copyright © 1993 by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jackson, Greg, 1983–

Title: Prodigals: stories / Greg Jackson.

Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015035366|ISBN 9780374238131 (hardback)|ISBN 9780374713751 (e-book)

Subjects:|BISAC: FICTION / Literary.

Classification: LCC PS3610.A3517 A6 2016|DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at
http://lccn.loc.gov/2015035366

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