Airships - Paperback
Airships - Paperback
by Barry Hannah (Author)
Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a "strong, original, tragic and funny" story collection of "the creative Southern tradition" (Alfred Kazin).
One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships 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.
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 surprise--scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality." --Cynthia Ozick
Front Jacket
Winner of the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award
Now 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." These 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. Includes: "Water Liars""Love Too Long"
"Testimony of Pilot"
"Coming Close to Donna"
"Dragged Fighting from His Tomb"
"Quo Vadis, Smut?"
"Return to Return"
"Green Gets It"
"Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet"
"Our Secret Home"
"Eating Wife and Friends"
"All the Old Harkening Faces at the Rail"
"Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed"
"That's True"
"Escape to Newark"
"Pete Resists the Man of His Old Room"
"Behold the Husband in his Perfect Agony"
"Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa"
"Deaf and Dumb"
"Mother Rooney Unscrolls the Heart"
Back Jacket
Winner of the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award
Now 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."
These 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.
Includes:
"Water Liars"
"Love Too Long"
"Testimony of Pilot"
"Coming Close to Donna"
"Dragged Fighting from His Tomb"
"Quo Vadis, Smut?"
"Return to Return"
"Green Gets It"
"Midnight and I'm Not Famous Yet"
"Our Secret Home"
"Eating Wife and Friends"
"All the Old Harkening Faces at the Rail"
"Knowing He Was Not My Kind Yet I Followed"
"That's True"
"Escape to Newark"
"Pete Resists the Man of His Old Room"
"Behold the Husband in his Perfect Agony"
"Constant Pain in Tuscaloosa"
"Deaf and Dumb"
"Mother Rooney Unscrolls the Heart"
Author Biography
Barry Hannah (1942-2010) was the author of twelve books: Geronimo Rex, Airships, Ray, The Tennis Handsome, Nightwatchmen, Captain Maximus, Hey Jack, Boomerang, Never Die, Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome and Yonder Stands Your Orphan. His work was published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, The Southern Review, The Oxford American, Gulf Coast Review, and many other magazines.