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Ray by Barry Hannah Nominated for the American Book Award ISBN: 0-8021-3387-8 / ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-3387-8 US $14.00 - 5 1/2 x 8 1/4, 128 pp - Mar. 1994 |
“A shorthand epic of extraordinary power . . . a novel of brilliant particulars and dizzying juxtapositions. . . . Reading it is like turning in one’s hand a sharply faceted crystal.”—Newsweek
“Ray is a song . . . about the electrics, cool and hot, of being alive.”—The Village Voice
“A masterwork of literary jazz. . . . An intense and readable joy.”—Chicago Tribune
“Ray delights, provokes, shocks, amuses on every page. Barry Hannah is an original, vital talent.”—Houston Chronicle
“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, Washington Post Book World
“Barry Hannah is an original, vital talent. His style is exuberant, impressionistic, and highly compressed. . . . Reading this novel is not a passive experience. It delights, provokes, shocks, amuses on every page.”—Houston Chronicle
“Ray is the funniest, weirdest, soul-happiest work of fiction by a genuinely young American author that I’ve read in a long while. You need a fresh lingo to do justice to this much magic, mystery, and hilarity.”—Benjamin DeMott, The New York Times Book Review