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Title: Airships by Barry Hannah ISBN: 0-8021-3388-6 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: They loved her at the Bargain Barn...
Comment: A wonderful collection of stories that made me laugh outloud more than anything since the first time I read Celine. From one story to the next I was trully captivated. What sets him apart from other writers is his T.S. Eliot - like gift to come up with phrases that ring in your head like coins for years to come. No writer ever has been able to sum up a character in a single sentence like Hannah. Her husband was an intellectual in real estate... etc. The same is true in other volumes. Latouche (with metaphysical approaches named after him), is a good example.
I am not yet published but have written nine novels and hope my day will come soon. Hannah along with Richard Ford, Cormack McCarthy, Flaubert, Rilke, Celine, and Peter Handke, are my all-time favorites. Thanks for the inspiration!
Rating: 1
Summary: fell flat, flat
Comment: I had to read and reread and reread many of these stories in order to understand that there was nothing to understand. I have no idea what he was attempting to do, or if he attempted and did what he planned to do, I had no idea what it was he did. "Testimony of Pilot" was probably the only normal story in this collection. And I'll admit, it was a damn fine story. It amounted to twelve dollars for one story, and, that, for me, didn't feel worth it. Or maybe I'm just stupid--maybe ever story made perfect literary sense. As an avid reader of Raymond Carver, I am not easily impressed by short stories, since, being an English Major and a student of writing and Carver, I have certian expectations of short story writers. For one, don't be too literary--I get enough of Lit BS from going to class, and second, don't try to showboat or reinvent the short story. Or maybe I'm just ignorant--that could be it!
Rating: 3
Summary: For die-hard, jaded literature students only.
Comment: Hannah is talented and he touches on some irresistable themes. The trouble seems that Mr. Hannah is bored and needs to turn lit on its head. He injects a sense of the surreal, magical realism, alcoholic visions and Faulkner desconstructions into stories that would be sincere and original enough without that needless showboating.
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Title: Geronimo Rex by Barry Hannah ISBN: 0802135692 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Ray by Barry Hannah ISBN: 0802133878 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Bats Out of Hell by Barry Hannah ISBN: 080213386X Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah ISBN: 0802138934 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: High Lonesome by Barry Hannah ISBN: 0802135323 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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