Bats Out of Hell

Name: Bats Out of Hell
Author: Barry Hannah

by Barry Hannah

Collection of stories exploring masculine crisis, violence, and Southern Gothic sensibility

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Barry Hannah

American short-story writer and novelist from Mississippi whose wild, lyrical fiction reinvented Southern Gothic. Airships is considered one of the great short-story collections in American literature. He was a pivotal influence on a generation of Southern writers.

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