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Books by Barry Hannah
  | | Long, Last, Happy(Reprint) New and Collected Stories by Barry Hannah Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2011 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-4550-5, ISBN: 0-8021-4550-7 " Long, Last, Happy combines the best of the four story collections Barry Hannah published during his lifetime, four new stories from the final manuscripts he left behind, and one early-career story never published in volume form. Here, a man’s estranged wife buzzes his house in her airplane, and a tailgate party can turn suddenly Biblical. The Confederate corporal in love with his General, the retired surgeon turning canine, the teenage ..." |
 | | Yonder Stands Your Orphan(1st Edition) by Barry Hannah Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by New York, Grove/Atlantic, 2001 ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3893-4, ISBN: 0-8021-3893-4 "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 Twi ..." |
 | | High Lonesome(1st Edition) by Barry Hannah Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1997 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3532-2, ISBN: 0-8021-3532-3 "High Lonesome is a darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into American life. This collection by the author of Airships and Bats Out of Hell explores lost moments in time with intensity, emotion, and an eye to the past. In "Uncle High Lonesome," a young man recalls his Uncle Peter, whose even temper was marred only by his drinking binges, which would unleash moments of rage hinting at his much deeper distress. Fi ..." |
 | | Ray(Reprint) by Barry Hannah Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 1994 by Grove Press Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3387-8, ISBN: 0-8021-3387-8 "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." |
 | | Bats Out of Hell(Reprint) by Barry Hannah Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 1994 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3386-1, ISBN: 0-8021-3386-X "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 gi ..." |
 | | Long, Last, Happy(1st Edition) New and Collected Stories by Barry Hannah Hardcover, 464 Pages, Published 2010 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-1968-1, ISBN: 0-8021-1968-9 "Amazon Best Books of the Month, December 2010: The real excitement of a well-done fireworks production comes not so much from a single boom and flash--anybody can make a big noise--but from the way the explosions pile up on each other, building and surprising and orchestrated to awe. And so it is with a Barry Hannah story. Every sentence--every sentence, he didn't take breathers--is packed full of explosives and then set to detonate, on ..." |
 | | Geronimo Rex(1st Edition) by Barry Hannah Paperback, 381 Pages, Published 1998 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3569-8, ISBN: 0-8021-3569-2 "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 ..." |
 | | Mark(1st Edition) (Pocket Canon) by Barry Hannah, Grove Press Staff Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1999 by Grove Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3617-6, ISBN: 0-8021-3617-6 "The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and per ..." |
 | | Airships(Reprint) by Barry Hannah Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1994 by Grove Press Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3388-5, ISBN: 0-8021-3388-6 "Alfred Kazin "These stories are wonderful in the ways Mark Twain, Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor are wonderful when they are working the great vein of fierce and pitiless Southern comedy. The war stories in particular — joining, as they do for me, the clownish misery and colossal overkill of Vietnam to the American Civil War — are masterpieces of their kind. Hannah is more than just a new voice — he is half a dozen brilliant new vo ..." |
 | | A Bum Deal An Unlikely Journey from Hopeless to Humanitarian by Rufus Hannah, Barry M. Soper Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2010 by Sourcebooks ISBN-13: 978-1-4022-4471-1, ISBN: 1-4022-4471-1 |
 | | The Tennis Handsome(Reprint) (Voices of the South) by Barry Hannah Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 1995 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-2008-8, ISBN: 0-8071-2008-1 "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." |
 | | Boomerang and Never Die (Banner Books) by Barry Hannah, Rick Bass Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1994 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-0-87805-702-3, ISBN: 0-87805-702-1 "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. ..." |
 | | Boomerang(1st Edition) by Barry Hannah Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 1989 by Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence ISBN-13: 978-0-395-48882-9, ISBN: 0-395-48882-6 "The life of a Mississippi-born-and-bred boy brings struggles for a "tiny but sincere" child who comes of age amidst staggering lust, hatred, love, and mayhem and who has a pivotal meeting with an old man" |
 | | Captain Maximus Short Stories and a Screen Treatment Uncorrected Proof by Barry Hannah, Gordon Lish Hardcover, 101 Pages, Published 1985 by Alfred A Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-54458-8, ISBN: 0-394-54458-7 |
 | | Ray by Barry Hannah, Steve Carlson Cd, Published 2017 by Audible Studios On Brilliance Audio Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-5366-3982-7, ISBN: 1-5366-3982-6 "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 20th 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." |
 | | Airships by Barry Hannah, Brian Troxell Cd, Published 2016 by Audible Studios On Brilliance Audiobook, Mp3_Audio ISBN-13: 978-1-5226-6125-2, ISBN: 1-5226-6125-5 "Now considered a contemporary classic, "Airships" was honored by "Esquire" magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The 20 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 Vicksburg are reunited in Vietnam, and petty nostalgia and the constant pain of disappointed love prevail. "Airships" is a striking demonstration of Barr ..." |
 | | Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah, Brian Sloan Cd, Published 2016 by Audible Studios On Brilliance Audio Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN-13: 978-1-5113-6440-9, ISBN: 1-5113-6440-8 "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 10 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 Tw ..." |
 | | Long, Last, Happy New and Collected Stories by Barry Hannah 464 Pages, Published 2010 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-9620-0, ISBN: 0-8021-9620-9 "The last picture was the best. It was John Whitelaw about to crack a golf ball. Tubby had taken it at Augusta, at the Masters. I used to live about five houses away from the Whitelaws. John had his mouth open and his arms, the forearm muscles, ..." |
 | | Ray by Barry Hannah 128 Pages, Published 2007 by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN-13: 978-1-55584-645-9, ISBN: 1-55584-645-9 "Harry King was flight control one night at the Tuscaloosa airport and brought Don in on autopilot from Chicago after he'd turned the plane in a storm and fainted. Ray is out here with his beeper on his leg, just watching the planes come in over ..." |
 | | Airships by Barry Hannah 288 Pages, Published 2007 by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-55584-642-8, ISBN: 1-55584-642-4 "Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as “the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O’Connor,” Barry Hannah’s immense storytelling gifts are on striking display in this essential work. “Hannah takes fiction by ..." |
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