Background
Hannah, Barry was born on April 23, 1942 in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. Son of William Edward and Elizabeth (King) Hannah.
( Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was hon...)
Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The twenty stories in this collection are a fresh, exuberant celebration of the new American South — a land of high school band contests, where good old boys from Vicksurg are reunited in Vietnam and petty nostalgia and the constant pain of disappointed love prevail. Airships is a striking demonstration of Barry Hannah's mature and original talent.
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(1986, trade paperback edition, Penguin, NY. 101 pages. 8 ...)
1986, trade paperback edition, Penguin, NY. 101 pages. 8 short stories featuring this unusual author's "... hard drinkers, passionate lovers, good haters, living on the edge, hurling fury at a complacent world."
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( Geronimo Rex, Barry Hannah's brilliant first novel, whi...)
Geronimo Rex, Barry Hannah's brilliant first novel, which was nominated for the National Book Award, is full of the rare verve and flawless turns of phrase that have defined his status as an American master. Roiling with love and torment, lunacy and desire, hilarity and tenderness, Geronimo Rex is the bildungsroman of an unlikely hero. Reared in gloomy Dream of Pines, Louisiana, whose pines have long since yielded to paper mills, Harry Monroe is ready to take on the world. Inspired by the great Geronimo's heroic rampage through the Old West, Harry puts on knee boots and a scarf and voyages out into the swamp of adolescence in the South of the 1950s and '60s. Along the way he is attacked by an unruly peacock; discovers women, rock 'n' roll, and jazz; and stalks a pervert white supremacist who fancies himself the next Henry Miller.
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(Spinning the raucous tale of four restless sons of Vicksb...)
Spinning the raucous tale of four restless sons of Vicksburg, Mississippi, Hannah introduces the reader to a pretty-boy international tennis star, his devoted manager, his gay coach, and a shell-shocked but sane Vietnam vet. Their adventures include rape by a walrus, murder by crossbow, and a tennis tournament played at gunpoint. Hannah's inventiveness sparkles and his prose shines.
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( Love and torment, lunacy and desire, tenderness and war...)
Love and torment, lunacy and desire, tenderness and war — the stories in Bats Out of Hell provide a brilliant, dazzling odyssey into American life. Barry Hannah's reputation as a master of the short story, first established in 1978 with the publication of Airships, is magnified in this volatile, long-awaited collection of new stories. Astonishing in range and in the portrayal of the human heart, these fierce and radar-perfect stories give us individuals with whom hilarity and pain combine with true and startling clarity.
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( Barry Hannah has long been considered one of the countr...)
Barry Hannah has long been considered one of the country's best living writers, whose singular voice and wicked genius for storytelling have earned him legions of diehard fans. His first novel in ten years, Yonder Stands Your Orphan opens with the establishment of an orphans' camp and the discovery of an abandoned car with two skeletons in the trunk. Man Mortimer, a pimp and casino pretty boy who resembles dead country singer Conway Twitty, has just been betrayed, and his revenge becomes a madness that will ravage the Mississippi community of Eagle Lake and give vent to his lifelong fascination with knives. The pompous young sheriff is useless at solving the crimes, so Mortimer's only challengers are three eccentric Christians -- a disgraced doctor and two ex-bikers, all prey to their addictions -- and an African-American Vietnam veteran whose wife is ill with cancer. Mortimer has a hold on each one of them -- a long-standing debt, a forgotten crime, or responsibilities they cannot yet desert. Yonder Stands Your Orphan paints a searing picture of the American South and establishes Barry Hannah once again as one of the most important writers in America.
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( Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bizar...)
Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bizarre, hilarious, and consistently adventurous story of a life on the edge. Dr. Ray--a womanizer, small-town drunk, vigilante, poet, adoring husband--is a man trying to make sense of life in the twentieth century. In flight from the death he dealt flying over Vietnam, Dr. Ray struggles with those bound to him by need, sickness, lunacy, by blood and by love.
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(In Boomerang, a novel told in vignettes both real and fic...)
In Boomerang, a novel told in vignettes both real and fictive, a father attempting to cope with the tragic murder of his son learns that actions return to haunt or reward. He becomes the embodiment of Hannah's ideal of forbearance, dignity, and decency in the face of incomprehensible death. In Never Die Hannah mingles hilarity and horror as the frontier West is killed off by the onset of automobiles, biplanes, and nitroglycerine bombs. A gallery of grotesque characters - a judges' evil dwarf henchman, a nymphomaniacal schoolteacher, and a homosexual doctor named Fingo - populate this rollicking postmodern novel in which Old West myths collide with the anarchy of the twentieth century.
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Hannah, Barry was born on April 23, 1942 in Meridian, Mississippi, United States. Son of William Edward and Elizabeth (King) Hannah.
Bachelor, Mississippi College, 1964. Master of Arts, University Arkansas, 1966. Master of Fine Arts, University Arkansas, 1967.
Associate professor, Clemson (South Carolina.) U., 1969-1974; writer in residence, U. Alabama, Tuscaloosa, 1974-1979; writer in residence, Middlebury (Vermont) College, 1972-1973; writer in residence, Iowa U., Iowa City, 1981; writer in residence, Montana U., Missoula, 1982-1983; writer in residence, U. Mississippi, Oxford, since 1984.
(Spinning the raucous tale of four restless sons of Vicksb...)
(Spinning the raucous tale of four restless sons of Vicksb...)
(A collection of short stories by the author of Geronimo R...)
( Geronimo Rex, Barry Hannah's brilliant first novel, whi...)
( Barry Hannah has long been considered one of the countr...)
(In Boomerang, a novel told in vignettes both real and fic...)
( Love and torment, lunacy and desire, tenderness and war...)
( Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bizar...)
( Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was hon...)
(1986, trade paperback edition, Penguin, NY. 101 pages. 8 ...)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
(Book by Hannah, Barry)
(Uncorrected proof. Rare. Minor marks to covers. Interior ...)
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President Oxford Humane Society, 1988-1989. Member Oxford Humane Society.
Married Susan Varas, March 29, 1986. Children: Po, Edward, Lee.