{"product_id":"airships-9780802168283","title":"Airships","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wonderful in the ways [of] Mark Twain, Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor.\"--Philip Roth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/MALAMUD AWARD - WINNER OF THE ARNOLD GINGRICH SHORT FICTION AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"one of the most exciting voices of the post-Faulkner generation\" (William Styron), Barry Hannah's triumphant classic \u003ci\u003eAirships \u003c\/i\u003eis a freewheeling and energetic collection of stories about love, loss, and legacy in the American South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauded as one of the most important writers of the South's post-Faulkner generation, Barry Hannah was a master of the American short story. He introduced readers to a world in which Mississippi pier fisherman, small-town prevaricators, and veterans of American wars--Civil, Vietnam, and Gulf--met a mythic, mold-breaking voice with echoes of Beckett, bepop, and the Bible. Hailed by none other than Larry McMurtry as \"the best young writer to appear in the South since Flannery O'Connor,\" Barry Hannah's \u003ci\u003eAirships \u003c\/i\u003eis a virtuosic ode to the art of storytelling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, \u003ci\u003eAirships \u003c\/i\u003eremains 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. Burning with racial unease, sex, love, and hell-raising, \u003ci\u003eAirships \u003c\/i\u003eis a testament to Hannah's status as a \"mendacity-battling Colossus\" (\u003ci\u003eAtlanta Journal-Constitution\u003c\/i\u003e) and one our most brilliant writers to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[\u003ci\u003eAirships\u003c\/i\u003e] struck me--as a great upheaval of our literary expectations, a liberating force . . . Hannah's language is audacious, bracing and insistent, often at the ragged brink of control. Words flash in ways no one had thought of before. Not ever.\"--\u003cb\u003eCharles Frazier, \u003ci\u003ePaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry Hannah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802168283\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Hannah (1942-2010)\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of twelve books: G\u003ci\u003eeronimo 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\u003e Never 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 the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other magazines. His achievements in fiction have been honored with an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Letters, and he was nominated for the American Book Award for \u003ci\u003eRay \u003c\/i\u003eand the National Book Award for \u003ci\u003eGeronimo Rex\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the William Faulkner Prize. He has also received the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award for \u003ci\u003eAirships\u003c\/i\u003e, and his body of work has been recognized with the PEN\/Malamud Award for Short Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Barry Hannah \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48943866216605,"sku":"9780802168283","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_d2737d18-cb54-4b7d-a780-14f50a14c443.jpg?v=1790152436","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/airships-9780802168283","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}