"Featuring outstanding debuts by Lan Samantha Chang with ""Pipa's Story,"" and Carolyn Ferrell's ""Proper Library""--a poignant tale about being black, male, and gay in the Bronx--the respected short story collection focuses on a new generation of writers."
Boomerang and Never Die (Banner Books) by BarryHannah, 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. ..."
Ray(Reprint) by BarryHannah 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 BarryHannah 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 ..."
Airships(Reprint) by BarryHannah 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 ..."
Bats Out of Hell by BarryHannah Published 1993 by Houghton Mifflin Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-48883-8, ISBN: 0-393-48883-7
Airships and Ray(1st Edition) by BarryHannah Paperback, 282 Pages, Published 1991 by Vintage Import ISBN-13: 978-0-09-974870-0, ISBN: 0-09-974870-3
Boomerang by BarryHannah Hardcover, 150 Pages, Published 1989 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (Hmh) ISBN-13: 978-0-89848-882-1, ISBN: 0-89848-882-6
Boomerang(1st Edition) by BarryHannah 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"
Hey Jack! Hannah, Barry by BarryHannah Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1988 by Penguin (Non-Classics) ISBN-13: 978-0-14-011185-9, ISBN: 0-14-011185-9
Bats Out of Hell(1st Edition) by BarryHannah, Michael Redhill Hardcover, 382 Pages, Published 1993 by Houghton Mifflin (T) ISBN-13: 978-0-395-48883-6, ISBN: 0-395-48883-4
"Love and torment, lunacy and desire, tenderness and war - the stories in Bats Out of Hell provide a brilliant, dazzling odyssey into American life. A man is possessed by the spirit of an eighteenth-century noblewoman every time he plays chess; a crippled boy yearns for brotherhood; dreaming and spinning lies to one another, a group of old men wait for death. No one but Barry Hannah could create this vivid world - and explore the nature ..."