by Jack Cady
Copyright © 2016 by the Estate of Jack Cady
Introduction © 2016 Nathan Ballingrud
All rights reserved, which means that no portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is U026, and it has an ISBN of 978-1-63023-034-0.
This book was printed in the United States of America, and it is published by Underland Press, an imprint of Resurrection House (Puyallup, WA).
Always before, bad men took the hint.
Series Cover Design and Art Direction by Jennifer Tough
Cover Layout by Darin Bradley
Book Design by Aaron Leis
Collection Editorial Direction by Mark Teppo
First Underland Press edition: June 2016.
The first edition of this novel was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2001. “Welcome Sweet Springtime” first appeared in Connecting: Twenty Prominent Authors Write About the Relationships That Shape Our Lives, published by Jeremy P. Tarcher in 1998. “Flying Home” first appeared in Western Edge in 1977, and was later collected in Tattoo, published by Circinatum in 1978. Both stories are © the Estate of Jack Cady.
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Praise for Jack Cady
An exceptional writer.
—Joyce Carol Oates
[Jack Cady is] a lasting voice in modern American literature.
—Atlanta Constitution
Jack Cady’s knack for golden sentences is an alchemy any other writer has to admire.
—Ivan Doig
Jack Cady is above all, a writer of great, unmistakable integrity and profound feeling. He never fakes it or coasts, and behind every one of his sentences is an emotional freight that bends it both outward, toward the reader, and inward, back to the source.
—Peter Straub
A writer whose words reverberate with human insight.
—Publishers Weekly
His structural control and the laconic richness of his style establish Cady in the front ranks of contemporary writers.
—Library Journal
When Cady settles into yarn-spinning, his stories have the humor and comfortable mastery of Faulkner or Steinbeck.
—National Review
The Cady Collection
NOVELS
The Hauntings of Hood Canal
Inagehi
The Jonah Watch
McDowell’s Ghost
The Man Who Could Make Things Vanish
The Off Season
Singleton
Street
Dark Dreaming [with Carol Orlock, as Pat Franklin]
Embrace of the Wolf [with Carol Orlock, as Pat Franklin]
OTHER WRITINGS
Phantoms
Fathoms
Ephemera
The American Writer
