Geronimo Rex

Barry Hannah (1942-2010) was the author of twelve books: Geronimo Rex, Airships, Ray, The Tennis Handsome, Nightwatchmen, Captain Maximus, Hey Jack, Boomerang, Never Die, Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome, and Yonder Stands Your Orphan. His work was published in The New Yorker, Esquire, Harper’s, The Southern Review, The Oxford American, Gulf Coast Review, and many other magazines. His achievements in fiction have been honored with an Academy Award in Literature by the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and he was nominated for the American Book Award for Ray and the National Book Award for Geronimo Rex, which won the William Faulkner Prize. He has also received the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award for Airships, and his body of work has been recognized with the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Fiction.

Praise for Geronimo RexWinner of the WIlliam Faulkner PrizeNominated for the National Book Award“A stunning piece of entertainment . . . vulgar, ribald, and wildly comic.” —The New York Times“A fresh angle on the great American subject of growing up.” —John Updike“Barry Hannah writes about adolescence with a rare pizzazz and insight. . . . [He] flings around his prose like the baton of a righteous twirler, and his story glitters in the sunshine.” —Rolling Stone“A lyrical, half-crazed song about growing up in the South.” —Los Angeles Times