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Boomerang and Never Die de Barry Hannah
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Boomerang and Never Die (edició 1994)

de Barry Hannah, Rick Bass (Introducció)

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In Boomerang, a novel told in vignettes both real and fictive, a father attempting to cope with the tragic murder of his son learns that actions return to haunt or reward. He becomes the embodiment of Hannah's ideal of forbearance, dignity, and decency in the face of incomprehensible death. In Never Die Hannah mingles hilarity and horror as the frontier West is killed off by the onset of automobiles, biplanes, and nitroglycerine bombs. A gallery of grotesque characters - a judges' evil dwarf henchman, a nymphomaniacal schoolteacher, and a homosexual doctor named Fingo - populate this rollicking postmodern novel in which Old West myths collide with the anarchy of the twentieth century.… (més)
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Títol:Boomerang and Never Die
Autors:Barry Hannah
Altres autors:Rick Bass (Introducció)
Informació:University Press of Mississippi (1994), Paperback, 152 pages
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Boomerang is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction; confession and hope. Barry Hannah tells of friends, enemies, wives, loves, “christers” and scoundrels. He shows his great love of animals and his children, and for his wives – when they’re not hating each other.

Women provoke some of Hannah’s most biting and memorable writing. About one wife:
“My great sullen manliness is controlling her and she has no
self-esteem anymore, which is exactly the way I want it.
I am a terrible man.”
Another wife, his first, “had the great talent for taking the heart out of
any situation that gave me joy. She had no friends. Everything
scared her.”
And some deadly humorous observations: “It is terrible to see a woman
become religious.”

But he loves women, and the dichotomies of loving them, and life in general.
As Hannah tells is: “Nothing is ever as you have explained it. Everybody is better off and worse than you could know in your furthest dreams.” ( )
  Hagelstein | Apr 22, 2017 |
Rick Bass’s 1933 introduction to this book of two novels couldn’t be more prescient and timely today:
“I want you to imagine, for a moment, a world without Barry Hannah: how dangerous it would be. A world in which the self-important, the brusque, the shallow, the greedy and the cowardly were not only free to roam unchecked, but a world in which these types were perhaps encouraged to prosper and multiply.”

Wow.

Boomerang appears to be a combination of short fiction pieces and memoir interwoven and loosely progressive. Some highlights:
“I scout under the bleachers, for what life has dropped.”
“The both of us have come back to this pretty and humane town to practice secular humanism as hard as we can. That is when we’re just staring out of windows trying to see even the rough face of God in the clouds or in the vapor over the oil spots in the parking lot of the Jitney Jungle.”
“Everybody is better off and worse than you could know in your furthest dreams.”
“I always smile at the cops around here and there are a few good ones. I even saw one in the bookstore once.”
“There is a quality of life when you listen to all of Bach and some jazz and you are out of cigarettes.”
Hannah, or his narrator, also professes to a love of animals and a tendency to treat women poorly. He, as Bass says, “snarls at the crude and savage,” as well as himself at times.

Never Die is a humorous and almost intoxicating Western filled with ugliness, violence and grotesque characters, almost like a frontier Harry Crews. ( )
  Hagelstein | Apr 22, 2017 |
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In Boomerang, a novel told in vignettes both real and fictive, a father attempting to cope with the tragic murder of his son learns that actions return to haunt or reward. He becomes the embodiment of Hannah's ideal of forbearance, dignity, and decency in the face of incomprehensible death. In Never Die Hannah mingles hilarity and horror as the frontier West is killed off by the onset of automobiles, biplanes, and nitroglycerine bombs. A gallery of grotesque characters - a judges' evil dwarf henchman, a nymphomaniacal schoolteacher, and a homosexual doctor named Fingo - populate this rollicking postmodern novel in which Old West myths collide with the anarchy of the twentieth century.

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