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Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories by Barry Hannah

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5.0

Barry Hannah can pack more punch, more depth, more emotion, more awe in to a single sentence than most writers achieve in entire novels. Reading his work is both revelatory and depressing, especially if you have vague notions of yourself as a writer, because you know that you will never achieve such great heights, and it can seem almost silly to try. Tilting at windmills?

A huge, wonderful, joyful, depressing, graphic, violent, tender, loving, spiteful, mysterious, enlightened, sexy, rough, poignant and mirthful collection. Should be required reading for everyone with a pulse.


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