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.

Literature & Fiction

Hannah, Barry

Literary

Penguin??Books

Geronimo Rex

Barry Hannah is a literary craftsman of rare verve and flawless turns of phrase. Geronimo Rex, his first novel, was awarded the William Faulkner Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award.Reared in gloomy Dream of Pines, Louisiana, where the 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 pulls 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. As Harry comes awkwardly into his own, Barry Hannah gives us a brilliant portrait of those times and that place -- plagued by violent reality but giddy, like Harry himself, with a sense of unlimited possibility.

Presents seven autobiographical short stories together with a screen treatment written for Robert Altman that recounts a dark, weird tale about female hardhats struggling to stay alive in Seattle, Washington

Captain Maximus (Contemporary American Fiction)

Harry Monroe's reflections on his life in Dream of Pines, Louisiana, reveal a young man who idolizes Geronimo for exploiting the people surrounding him

A small-town southern physician, in his mid-thirties--who is also an adoring husband, a philanderer, a devoted but unnoticing father, a frustrated poet, and a frustrated killer--finds some fulfillment in caring for losers and lunatics

Ray (Contemporary American Fiction)

A Southerner odyssey revolving around Gramps, a hypochondriacal professor, a rock star, redneck Southerners, Korean veterans, and Jack, an old cafe owner whose friendship with Homer, the narrator, anchors the story

Hey Jack! (Contemporary American Fiction)

Petty nostalgias and the real pain of disappointed love, the Vietnam reunion of good old boys from Vicksburg, and the activities of a corps of anti-smut police are among the subjects of stories that celebrate the new American South

Airships

Contemporary

KNOPF

A small-town southern physician, in his mid-thirties--who is also an adoring husband, a philanderer, a devoted but unnoticing father, a frustrated poet, and a frustrated killer--finds some fulfillment in caring for losers and lunatics.

United States

The lives of a moronic tennis star named French Edward, his disgusting coach, and a shellshocked fan reveal the manic possibilities of post-Vietnam America

The Tennis Handsome

Alfred.A. Knopf

Presents seven vibrant, outrageous, autobiographical short stories together with a screen treatment written for Robert Altman that recounts a dark, weird tale about female hardhats struggling to stay alive in Seattle, Washington

Captain Maximus

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Books by Hannah, Barry

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Ray

Geronimo Rex

Captain Maximus (Contemporary American Fiction)

Geronimo Rex

Ray (Contemporary American Fiction)

Hey Jack! (Contemporary American Fiction)

Airships

Ray

The Tennis Handsome

Captain Maximus