On 2006-12-06 Crag Talent, USA wrote: I can always tell a great book by the fact I´m constantly thinking of bits I´d like to steal while reading. By that criteria, reading Airships was like being tossed in a jewlery store at night without any security around.
Airships is a collection of stories about war, sex, airplanes and horses. The usual, but done with incredible style and energy. I find that far too much modern short fiction is so polished and calculated it comes out as a dulled diamond (or more often polished stone), but Hannah´s work is full of the rough, gritty, loose writing that draws you in like possessed jungle vines and then you get attacked by a Panther or something.
A few of the stories fall short and at least one didn´t work at all for me, but I´ll still give it a big ol´ A+. And summed up by saying Fiction that explodes like a bottle rocket. Currently Airships has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Grove Press claimed 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.
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