The Bear Bryant Funeral Train

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 flee 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. This controversial, former award-winning collection (famously pulped by its publisher 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as Brad Watson and Margot Livesey--are presented as they were originally intended and are augmented by one previously unpublished tale. Also included are an introductory essay by Vice, explaining for the first time his side of the controversy, and contextual commentary by other authors and scholars. Ultimately, however, readers will judge this book by its primary powers: the strength and integrity of the storytelling--vibrant, exciting, and, ultimately, original.