Barry Hannah
Birth date: April 23, 1942
Died: March 01, 2010
Barry Hannah's Books
bookshelves: summer-2014, published-1985, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Biblioklept Read on August 16, 2014 Just the story 'Even Greenland' from this collection. And you can read it too: here.Very short, very powerful.
read during my College YearsI Remember: murders on a college campus... submerged, murky narrative... oh so postmodern... college is stupid... bleak is funny... mid-life crisis is funny... education is funny... too many characters, i need to make a list... lots of great lines... who said that?... whe...
Seemed like more of a writing exercise than the telling of a story.
Closing the book with a story that was longer, dumber, grosser, and boringer than the rest of them was a bad idea, and finding out that that one was the one B.H. was proudest of made me think he was sort of stupid. Quite a few good sentences and stories though, especially "Testimony of Pilot" and a...
I feel like my rating might have been bumped up to five stars if I had been able to absorb Ray in one sitting. The fragmentary stream-of-consciousness style of prose would have been more powerful if I hadn't had to stop reading for such trivial things as work. This is the first book that I have read...
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