Description: This masterly volume comprises the best of the shorter fiction written by Just over the past 25 years--"masterpieces of balance, focus, and hidden order" ("Chicago Tribune").
Brief description: WARD JUST (1935-2019) was the author of nineteen novels, including Exiles in the Garden, Forgetfulness, the National Book Award finalist Echo House, A Dangerous Friend, winner of the Cooper Prize for fiction from the Society of American Historians, and An Unfinished Season, winner of the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award and a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.
Review Quotes:
"Fiction that for its ambition and insight is unique in American letters." Boston Globe
"Masterpieces of balance, focus, and hidden order." The Chicago Tribune