This book is a collection of 20 short stories by young Southern writer, Barry Hannah. Some of the titles included: 'Water Liars, ' 'Love Too Long, ' 'Green Gets It, ' 'Return to Return, ' and 'Knowing He Was Not My Kind yet I Followed.'

Now considered a contemporary classic, Airships was honored by Esquire magazine with the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award. The twenty stories in this collection are a fresh, exuberant celebration of the new American South -- a land of high school band contests, where good old boys from Vicksurg are reunited in Vietnam and petty nostalgia and the constant pain of disappointed love prevail. Airships is a striking demonstration of Barry Hannah''s mature and original talent.

This book is a collection of 20 short stories by young Southern writer, Barry Hannah. Some of the titles included: ''Water Liars, '' ''Love Too Long, '' ''Green Gets It, '' ''Return to Return, '' and ''Knowing He Was Not My Kind yet I Followed.''

Barry Hannah is the author of twelve books, including Yonder Stands Your Orphan with His Gun and the collections High Lonesome and Airships, which is regarded as a modern classic. He has been nominated for the American Book Award for the novel Ray and the National Book Award for the novel Geronimo Rex, which also won the William Faulkner Prize, and his achievements in fiction have been honored by the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Mr. Hannah lives in Oxford, Mississippi.