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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1972
  • Latest Book:
    December 2010
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Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • Nominated for the National Book Award, Barry Hannah’s brilliant debut offers “a fresh angle on the great American subject of growing up” (John Updike).   Roiling with love and torment, lunacy and desire, hilarity and tenderness, Geronimo ...



  • “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 bi...





  • 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...



  • Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin).   One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships...



  • 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...



  • Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Prize for his first novel Geronimo Rex and twice nominated for the National Book Award, Hannah ( Hey Jack! ; The Tennis Handsome ) again exhibits his antic imagination and spare but striking prose style. In his eighth book,...



  • In 1910, in a frontier town rife with corruption, a colorful group of characters--a dwarf and a judge who own the town and the judge's daughter, Nandina, who loves Fernando, a gunfighter who vows to destroy the town--take part in a dark comedy of lus...



  • Love and torment, lunacy and desire, tenderness and war -- the stories in Bats Out of Hell provide a brilliant, dazzling odyssey into American life. Barry Hannah's reputation as a master of the short story, first established in 1978 with the public...







  • A darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into contemporary American life by “the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction” (Interview).   The thirteen masterful tales in this collection by the award-winning author of Ai...



  • “A wildly colorful, darkly comic, and ultimately sinister tale of madness and murder” from the award-winning master of Southern fiction (Library Journal). “Set in a lake community in the vicinity of Vicksburg, Miss., the story revolves around a...



  • 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 estra...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barry Hannah has published 13 books.

Barry Hannah does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Long, Last, Happy, was published in December 2010.

The first book by Barry Hannah, Geronimo Rex, was published in March 1972.

No. Barry Hannah does not write books in series.