Bibliographic Description
85.11.W016: Hannah – Airships
[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ AIRSHIPS ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 0.85 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ ★ Barry Hannah ★ ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | Vintage Contemporaries | VINTAGE BOOKS • A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
First Vintage Books Edition, November 1985
112 leaves, pp. [2] i-ix x 1-3 4-7 8-9 10-15 16-17 18-44 45 46-48 49 50-60 61 62-65 66-67 68-96 97 98-104 105 106-118 119 120-128 129 130-138 139 140-142 143 144-148 149 150-151 152-153 154-159 160-161 162 163 164-168 169 170-175 176-177 178-181 182-183 184-209 [3]
Contents: π1a blurbs and author photo, π1b blank, i half-title, ii blank, iii title, iv imprint, v dedication, vi blank, vii acknowledgments, viii blank, ix-x contents, 1-209 Airships: 1 fly-title, 2 blank, 3-7 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ ★ Water Liars ★ ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 8 blank, 9-15 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ Love Too Long ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 16 blank, 17-44 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ Testimony of Pilot ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 45-48 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ Coming Close ★ ★ | ★ ★ ★ to Donna ★ ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”, 49-60 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | ★ Dragged Fighting ★ | ★ ★ from His Tomb ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”, 61-65 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ Quo Vadis, Smut? ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 66 blank, 67-96 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ Return to Return ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 97-104 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ Green Gets It ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 105-118 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | ★ Midnight and I’m ★ | ★ ★ Not Famous Yet ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”, 119-128 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ Our Secret Home ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 129-138 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ ★ Eating Wife ★ ★ ★ | ★ ★ ★ and Friends ★ ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”, 139-142 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ ★ All the Old ★ ★ ★ | ★ Harkening Faces ★ | ★ ★ ★ at the Rail ★ ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”, 143-148 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | ★ Knowing He Was ★ | ★ ★ Not My Kind ★ ★ | ★ ★ Yet I Followed ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”, 149-151 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ ★ That’s True ★ ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 152 blank, 153-159 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ Escape to Newark ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 160 blank, 161-162 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | Pete Resists the Man | ★ of His Old Room ★ | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”, 163-168 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | Behold the Husband | in His Perfect Agony | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”, 169-175 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ Constant Pain ★ ★ | ★ ★ in Tuscaloosa ★ ★ | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”, 176 blank, 177-181 “[ornamental rule 1.2 x 10 cm] | ★ Deaf and Dumb ★ | [ornamental rule 1.35 x 10 cm]”, 182 blank, 183-209 “[ornamental rule 1.1 x 10 cm] | ★ ★ Mother Rooney ★ ★ | ★ Unscrolls the Hurt ★ | [ornamental rule 1.3 x 10 cm]”; χ1b about the author, χ2a Vintage Contemporaries order form, χ2b Vintage Contemporaries list.
Cover design by Lorraine Louie; cover illustration by Rick Lovell; interior author photo by Karen Newsom.
Copyright: ©1978. ISBN: 0-394-72913-7. Price: $5.95. Airships was first published by Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
Copies: JDP 1.3
Blurbs
- (front cover) A sensational new American comic writer. – The New York Times Book Review
- Strong, original, tragic and funny in the same voice—a writer of violent honesty and power in the creative Southern tradition. – Alfred Kazan
- These stories are wonderful in the ways Mark Twain, Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor are wonderful when they are working the great vein of fierce and pitiless Southern comedy. The war stories in particular—joining, as they do for me, the clownish misery and colossal overkill of Vietnam to the American Civil War—are masterpieces of their kind. Hannah is more than just a new voice—he is half a dozen brilliant new voices. – Philip Roth
- Barry Hannah takes fiction by surprise—scenes, shocks, sounds and amazements: an explosive but meticulous originality. – Cynthia Ozick
- Talents as broad as this thrive in novels but rarely take to the more constricting form of the short story. Airships proves Barry Hannah an exception…artfully rounded-off vignettes jumping with humor and menace….The stories bounce off and echo one another, giving the book an impact greater than the sum of its parts….Most young Southern writers resent being compared to such past giants as Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor. In embracing the gothic mode, Hannah has planted himself firmly on their turf. On the evidence of this book, their shadows are not stunting his growth. – Time