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Geronimo Rex

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846432
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Geronimo Rex written by Barry Hannah and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominated for the National Book Award, Barry Hannah’s brilliant debut offers “a fresh angle on the great American subject of growing up” (John Updike). 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 Monroe is ready to take on the world. Inspired by the great Geronimo’s heroic rampage through the Old West, Harry puts on knee boots and a scarf and voyages out into the swamp of adolescence in the South of the 1950s and ’60s. Along the way he is attacked by an unruly peacock; discovers women, rock ’n’ roll, and jazz; and stalks a pervert white supremacist who fancies himself the next Henry Miller in this “stunning piece of entertainment . . . vulgar, ribald, and wildly comic” (TheNew York Times). “Hannah writes about adolescence with a rare pizzazz and insight.” —Rolling Stone

Airships

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1555846424
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Airships written by Barry Hannah and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Yonder Stands Your Orphan

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802138934
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Yonder Stands Your Orphan written by Barry Hannah and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man Mortimer, "a pimp and casino playboy who resembles dead country singer Conway Twitty", seeks revenge against a small Mississippi community.

Ray

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555846459
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Ray written by Barry Hannah and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A shorthand epic of extraordinary power . . . A novel of brilliant particulars and dizzying juxtapositions” from the acclaimed southern author of Geronimo Rex (Newsweek). 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. “This novel hangs in the memory like a fishhook. It will haunt you long after you have finally put it down. Barry Hannah is a talent to reckon with, and I can only hope that Ray finds an audience it deserves.” —Harry Crews, The Washington Post Book World

Postregional Fictions

Author : Clare Chadd
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807175749
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Postregional Fictions written by Clare Chadd and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing from recent debates about the validity of regional studies and skepticism surrounding the efficacy of the concept of authenticity, Clare Chadd’s Postregional Fictions focuses on questions of southern regional authenticity in fiction published by Barry Hannah from 1972 to 2001. The first monograph on the Mississippi author’s work to appear since his death, this study considers the ways in which Hannah’s novels and short stories challenge established conceptual understandings of the U.S. South. Hannah’s writing often features elements of metafiction, through which the putative sense of “southernness” his stories dramatize is complicated by an intense self-reflexivity about the extent to which a sense of place has never been foundational or essential but has always been constructed and performed. Such texts locate a productive terrain between the local and the global, with particular relevance for critical apprehensions of the post-South and postsouthern literature. Offering sustained close readings of selected stories, and focusing especially on Hannah’s late work, Chadd argues that his fiction reveals the region constantly shifting in a process of mythmaking, dialogue, and performance. In turn, she uses Hannah’s work to suggest how notions of the “South” and “southernness” might survive the various deconstructive approaches leveled against them in recent decades of southern studies scholarship. Rather than seeing an impasse between the regional and the global, Chadd’s reading of Hannah shows the two existing and flourishing in tandem. In Postregional Fictions, Chadd offers a new interpretation of Hannah based on an appreciation of the vital intersection of southern and postmodern elements in his work.

Perspectives on Barry Hannah

Author : Martyn Bone
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496800125
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Barry Hannah written by Martyn Bone and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Melanie R. Benson, Thomas Ærvold, Bjerre, Martyn Bone, Mark S. Graybill, Richard E. Lee, Kenneth Millard, James B. Potts III, Scott Romine, Matthew Shipe, and Daniel E. Williams Perspectives on Barry Hannah is a collection of essays devoted to the work of the award-winning fiction writer Barry Hannah (1942–2010). The anthology features a broad range of critical approaches and covers the span of Hannah's career from Geronimo Rex (1972) to Yonder Stands Your Orphan (2001). The book also includes a previously unpublished interview with Hannah. The ten essays cover all of Hannah’s thirteen published books. The contributors give fresh perspectives on Hannah’s classic works (Airships and Ray), provide illuminating readings of important fiction that has received less critical attention (Night–Watchmen, Hey Jack!, and Never Die), and offer the first sustained criticism of Hannah’s acclaimed later fiction (Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome, and Yonder Stands Your Orphan). As Martyn Bone explains in his introduction, the essays—though varied in approach and style—consistently hone in on the recurrent themes that characterize Hannah’s career: his relationship to postmodernism; his interrogation of traditional ideas of masculinity and heroism; his complex engagement with southern history, literature, and culture; and his growing concern with spirituality and morality. The essays in Perspectives on Barry Hannah make connections between Hannah’s work and that of several prominent modern and postmodern authors, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Allen Tate, John Irving, J. M. Coetzee, and Cormac McCarthy. Contributors also consider Hannah’s fiction in relation to non-literary cultural forms such as sports, film, and popular music. Ultimately, Perspectives on Barry Hannah affirms Hannah’s status as a leading figure in contemporary American literature.

Reconstructing the Native South

Author : Melanie Benson Taylor
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820341886
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing the Native South written by Melanie Benson Taylor and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reconstructing the Native South, Melanie Benson Taylor examines the diverse body of Native American literature in the contemporary U.S. South--literature written by the descendants of tribes who evaded Removal and have maintained ties with their southeastern homelands. In so doing Taylor advances a provocative, even counterintuitive claim: that the U.S. South and its Native American survivors have far more in common than mere geographical proximity. Both cultures have long been haunted by separate histories of loss and nostalgia, Taylor contends, and the moments when those experiences converge in explicit and startling ways have yet to be investigated by scholars. These convergences often bear the scars of protracted colonial antagonism, appropriation, and segregation, and they share preoccupations with land, sovereignty, tradition, dispossession, subjugation, purity, and violence. Taylor poses difficult questions in this work. In the aftermath of Removal and colonial devastation, what remains--for Native and non-Native southerners--to be recovered? Is it acceptable to identify an Indian "lost cause"? Is a deep sense of hybridity and intercultural affiliation the only coherent way forward, both for the New South and for its oldest inhabitants? And in these newly entangled, postcolonial environments, has global capitalism emerged as the new enemy for the twenty-first century? Reconstructing the Native South is a compellingly original work that contributes to conversations in Native American, southern, and transnational American studies.

Southern Writers at Century's End

Author : Jeffrey J. Folks
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813189519
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Southern Writers at Century's End written by Jeffrey J. Folks and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of World War II, the South has experienced a greater awareness of growth and of its accompanying tensions than other regions of the United States. The rapid change that climaxed with the war in Vietnam, the Cold War, civil rights demonstrations, and Watergate has forced the traditional South to come to terms with social upheaval. As the essays collected in Southern Writers at Century's End point out, southern writing: since 1975 reflects the confusion and violence that have characterized late-twentieth-century public culture. These essays consider the work of twenty-one of the foremost southern writers whose most important fiction has appeared in the last quarter of this century. As the region's contemporary writers have begun to gain a wide audience, critics have begun to distinguish what Hugh Holman has called "the fresh, the vital, and the new" in southern literary culture. Southern Writers at Century's End is the first volume to take an extensive look at the current generation of southern writers. Authors considered include: James Lee Burke, Fred Chappell, Robert Drake, Andre Dubus, Clyde Edgerton, Richard Ford, Kaye Gibbons, John Grisham, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Josephine Humphreys, Randall Kenan, Richard Marius, Bobbie Ann Mason, Cormac McCarthy, Tim McLaurin, T.R. Pearson, Lee Smith, Anne Tyle,r Alice Walker, and James Wilcox.

Southern Writers Bear Witness

Author : Jan Nordby Gretlund
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178770
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Southern Writers Bear Witness written by Jan Nordby Gretlund and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen Southern storytellers reveal their influences, methods and daily routines, and struggles with the writing process Jan Nordby Gretlund has been studying the literature of the American South for some fifty years, and his outsider's perspective as a European scholar has made him an intellectually acute witness of both the literature and its creators. Whether it is their language and reflexive storytelling or the craft and techniques by which writers transform life and experience into art that fascinates Gretlund, elements of their fiction led to his interviews with the fourteen storytellers featured in Southern Writers Bear Witness. Gretlund believes a good interview will always reveal something about a writer's life and character, details that can inform a reading of that writer's fiction. The interviewer's task, according to Gretlund, is to supply the reader with some of the sources and experiences that inspired and shaped the fiction. Through his conversations Gretlund also occasionally elicits the subjects' reflections on other writers and their work to discover affiliations, lines of influence, and divergences, and he also emphasizes the enduring power of their work. His interviews with Eudora Welty and Pam Durban uncover strong family and community experiences found at the core of their fiction. Gretlund also turns conversations to the craft of writing, writers' daily routines, and specific problems encountered in their work, such as Clyde Edgerton's struggle with point of view. In other exchanges he investigates distinctive elements of a writer's work, such as violence in Barry Hannah's fiction and religious faith in Walker Percy's. Still other conversations, such as his with Josephine Humphreys, touch on the pressures and opportunities of publishing and its influence on the writer's work. Taken together, these authors' insights on life in the South provide a fascinating window into the creative process of storytelling as well as the human experiences that fuel it. A foreword by Daniel Cross Turner, author of Southern Crossings: Poetry, Memory, and the Transcultural South and co-editor of Undead Souths: The Gothic and Beyond in Southern Literature and Culture and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry, is also included. Featured Authors: Pat Conroy Pam Durban Clyde Edgerton Percival Everett Kaye Gibbons Barry Hannah Mary Hood Josephine Humphreys Madison Jones Martin Luther King Sr. Walker Percy Ron Rash Dori Sanders Eudora Welty

Nightwatchmen

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Nightwatchmen written by Barry Hannah and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1973 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Picked-Up Pieces

Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679645861
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book Picked-Up Pieces written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In John Updike’s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early ’70s. If one word could sum up the young critic’s approach to books and their authors it would be “generosity”: “Better to praise and share,” he says in his Foreword, “than to blame and ban.” And so he follows his enthusiasms, which prove both deserving and infectious: Kierkegaard, Proust, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and Hamsun among the classics; Borges, Nabokov, Grass, Bellow, Cheever, and Jong among the contemporaries. Here too are meditations on Satan and cemeteries, travel essays on London and Anguilla, three very early “golf dreams,” and one big interview. Picked-Up Pieces is a glittering treasury for every reader who likes life, books, wit—and John Updike.

Encyclopedia of the American Novel

Author : Abby H. P. Werlock
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 143814069X
Total Pages : 3854 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of the American Novel written by Abby H. P. Werlock and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 3854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the print edition:" ... no other reference work on American fiction brings together such an array of authors and texts as this.

Inventing Southern Literature

Author : Michael Kreyling
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1578060451
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Inventing Southern Literature written by Michael Kreyling and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Inventing Southern Literature Michael Kreyling casts a penetrating ray upon the traditional canon of southern literature and questions the modes by which it was created. He finds that it was, indeed, an invention rather than a creation. From their heyday to the present, Kreyling investigates the historical conditions under which literary and cultural critics have invented "the South" and how they have chosen its representations. Through his study of these choices, Kreyling argues that interested groups have shaped meanings that preserve "a South" as "the South."

The Indian in American Southern Literature

Author : Melanie Benson Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108495311
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Indian in American Southern Literature written by Melanie Benson Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the abundance of Native American representations in US Southern literature.

Dinosaur Goes to the Store

Author : Ken Alside
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
ISBN 13 : 1482445611
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Goes to the Store written by Ken Alside and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One little dinosaur is having a birthday, and its his familys job to get ready for the big party. This book takes beginning readers on a trip to the store the day before the big day, as two dinosaurs grab a shopping cart and make sure they have everything they need to host a great gathering of friends and family. From the ingredients needed to bake a cake to birthday presents and decorations, these dinos are on a mission to make it the best birthday party ever!

Merchant Vessels of the United States

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merchant Vessels of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 2152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World

Author : Fred C. Hobson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820312750
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World written by Fred C. Hobson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Southern Writer in the Postmodern World Fred Hobson offers a witty and engaging 'preliminary estimate' of some of the most prominent new figures in southern fiction. Although he discouvers no shortage of talent, he does find 'various and conflicting attitudes toward the southe and the contemporary world.' Especially concermed with the relationship of these new writers to their literary predecessors, he traces the continuity--or lack of continuity--or lack of continuity--of certain attitudes, fictional approaches, and even values that informed southern writing during its earlier flowering in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.