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Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
Long Last Happy New and Collected Stories Author:Barry Hannah Long, Last, Happy combines the best of the four story collections Barry Hannah published during his lifetime, four new stories from the final manuscripts he left behind, and one early-career story never published in volume form. Here, a man’s estranged wife buzzes his house in her airplane, and a tailgate party can turn suddenly Biblical. ... more »The Confederate corporal in love with his General, the retired surgeon turning canine, the teenage boy rebelling against the “gloomy John Birch literature” of his surroundings, who ends up looking after an eccentric, beautiful lush—Hannah’s characters occupy the intersection of heartbreak and surreal comedy. In his last works, set in a Mississippi college town terrorized by mysterious arson, the ghosts of history and devilments of love, lust, and drink walk the streets. Throughout, his ferocious, glittering prose maps a literary New South—a fictional landscape burning with racial unease, sex, love, hellraising, and a deep devotion to the art of storytelling.
1964-1978 : Airships and before. Trek ; Water liars ; Love too long ; Testimony of pilot ; Coming close to Donna ; Dragged fighting from his tomb ; Midnight and I'm not famous yet ; Knowing he was not my kind yet I followed ; Behold the husband in his perfect agony ; Mother Rooney unscrolls the hurt --
1986-1993 : Bats out of hell. High-water railers ; Two things, dimly, were going at each other ; Bats out of hell division ; Evening of the Yarp : a report by Roonswent Dover ; Mother mouth ; Rat-faced auntie ; Scandale d'estime ; Hey, have you got a cig, the time, the news, my face? --
1993-1996 : High lonesome. Get some young ; A creature in the bay of St. Louis ; Two gone over ; Drummer down ; Uncle high lonesome --
2000s : Long, last, happy : new stories. Fire water ; Sick soldier at your door ; Lastward, Deputy James ; Rangoon Green.« less