Airships [Paperback]

Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The twenty stories in this collection 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.

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

Barry Hannah is the best fiction writer to appear in the South since Flannery O'Connor. —Larry McMurtry

Strong, original, tragic and funny in the same voice-a writer of violent honesty and power in the creative Southern tradition. &l“2