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      Ray

      by Barry Hannah
      Published
      Oct 1980
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      128
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      "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

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      Nov 1981 Penguin ISBN13 9780140059458 ISBN10 0140059458
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      Nov 1987 Penguin ISBN13 9780140105155 ISBN10 0140105158
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      Apr 1994 Grove Press ISBN13 9780802133878 ISBN10 0802133878
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      First Edition Oct 1980 Knopf ISBN13 9780394509723 ISBN10 0394509722
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      Dec 2007 Grove Press ISBN13 9781555846459 ISBN10 1555846459
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      Dec 2007 Grove Press ISBN10 B005012GG0
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