Happiness

Contents and Acknowledgements

Contents In Damascus / 1 Eve and Adam, 1963 / 11 Happiness / 24 Urban Fishing / 41 Dancing Fish / 53 Salvage / 68 Someone Else / 77 It Was Humdrum / 88 The White Hope of Cleveland / 99 Imagined Colors / 107 Nothing / 118 The Cost of Anything / 121 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank Don Berger, David Black, Staige Blackford, Barbara Feldman, John Hawkes, Leslie Lawrence, Sally Mack, Harriet Ritvo, Bruce Rosenberg, Meredith Steinbach, Dabney Stuart, Keith Waldrop, Debra Zussman, the Harvard Public Library, the Huntington Library, and the Providence Area Writers Group (PAW). I thank especially Gail Donovan and Elizabeth Searle, and Ilona Karmel, who gave me her counsel and her fireproof box. I am grateful to the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for their support. These stories, in somewhat different form, have appeared elsewhere: "Eve and Adam, 1963" in the Nebraska Review; "In Damascus" in Shenandoah; "Happiness" in the Virginia Quarterly Review; "Urban Fishing" in Oxford Magazine; "Dancing Fish" in American Fiction; "Salvage" in the Greensboro Review; "Someone Else" in the Chicago Tribune (1987 Nelson Algren Awards); "It Was Humdrum" in Toyon (1986 Raymond Carver Award); "The White Hope of Cleveland" in Crosscurrents: New Work by Award Winners II; "Imagined Colors" (as "Life Class") in the Madison Review (1989 Chris O'Malley Prize); "Nothing" (as part of "The Female Lives in the Body") in the Madison Review and broadcast on "The Sound of Writing" (1991 PEN Syndicated Fiction Award); "The Cost of Anything" in the Greensboro Review. Happiness ...