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Barry Hannah

Ray

“A shorthand epic of extraordinary power . . . A novel of brilliant particulars and dizzying juxtapositions” from the acclaimed southern author of Geronimo Rex (Newsweek).
Nominated for the American Book Award, Ray is the bizarre, hilarious, and consistently adventurous story of a life on the edge. Dr. Ray—a womanizer, small-town drunk, vigilante, poet, adoring husband—is a man trying to make sense of life in the twentieth century. In flight from the death he dealt flying over Vietnam, Dr. Ray struggles with those bound to him by need, sickness, lunacy, by blood and by love.
“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, The Washington Post Book World
85 printed pages
Original publication
2007
Publication year
2007
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Quotes

  • Anna Sorokinahas quoted6 years ago
    Sister is always in love with somebody, sometimes me. There is a capricious wisdom she has about attaching herself to anybody for very long, although her loyalties are fast.
  • Anna Sorokinahas quoted6 years ago
    I get tired of people. All of them driving around in their cars, eating, having to be. All of them insisting on existing.
  • Anna Sorokinahas quoted6 years ago
    I have a wife who turns her beauty on and off like a light switch.
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