{"product_id":"airships-paperback","title":"Airships - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarry Hannah\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Malamud Award, Airships is a \"strong, original, tragic and funny\" story collection of \"the creative Southern tradition\" (Alfred Kazin).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, \u003ci\u003eAirships\u003c\/i\u003e remains a vital text in the history of the American short story. The award-winning contemporary classic features twenty wildly original, exuberant, often hilarious stories that celebrate the universal peculiarities 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 incessant pain of disappointed love prevail in spite of our worst efforts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Hannah takes fiction by surprise--scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality.\" --Cynthia Ozick\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award, and its author was welcomed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review as a \"sensational new comic writer.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese twenty stories 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Water Liars\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Love Too Long\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Testimony of Pilot\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Coming Close to Donna\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Dragged Fighting from His Tomb\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Quo Vadis, Smut?\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Return to Return\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Green Gets It\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Our Secret Home\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Eating Wife and Friends\"\u003cbr\u003e\"All the Old Harkening Faces at the Rail\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed\"\u003cbr\u003e\"That's True\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Escape to Newark\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Pete Resists the Man of His Old Room\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Behold the Husband in his Perfect Agony\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Deaf and Dumb\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Mother Rooney Unscrolls the Heart\"\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award, and its author was welcomed on the cover of The New York Times Book Review as a \"sensational new comic writer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese twenty stories 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncludes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Water Liars\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Love Too Long\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Testimony of Pilot\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Coming Close to Donna\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Dragged Fighting from His Tomb\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Quo Vadis, Smut?\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Return to Return\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Green Gets It\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Our Secret Home\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Eating Wife and Friends\"\u003cbr\u003e\"All the Old Harkening Faces at the Rail\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed\"\u003cbr\u003e\"That's True\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Escape to Newark\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Pete Resists the Man of His Old Room\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Behold the Husband in his Perfect Agony\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Deaf and Dumb\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Mother Rooney Unscrolls the Heart\"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Hannah\u003c\/b\u003e (1942-2010) was the author of twelve books: \u003ci\u003eGeronimo Rex\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAirships\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRay\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tennis Handsome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNightwatchmen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaptain Maximus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHey Jack\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoomerang\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNever Die\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBats Out of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHigh Lonesome\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eYonder Stands Your Orphan\u003c\/i\u003e. His work was published in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Oxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other magazines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.61 x 8.27 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 06, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53457741742387,"sku":"9780802133885","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/yR24Foe6KF9780802133885.webp?v=1781271763","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/airships-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}