Yonder Stands Your Orphan : Book

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1) Paperback Book Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Grove Press. This novel is for self-absorbed pseudo-intellectuals who like to read out in public with the cover facing out. Hannah trades emotion, strong characterization and plot development for flowery, inconsistent writing and not-so-witty asides. Only buy it if you´re giving it to someone you don´t like.¤

2) Paperback Book Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Grove Press. Words that describe my impression of this work:
A waste of my time.
Too many characters. Brilliant sentences that become too self-conciously showy.
Lack of attention to basic plot clarity.

In short, this is not Southern fiction. This is Norman Mailer on a Southern vacation on steroids.¤

3) Paperback Book Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Grove Press. Generally, the reviews knocking this book are obviously written by people who simply don´t know what they´re talking about.¤

4) Paperback Book Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Grove Press. I´ve enjoyed Barry Hannah´s short stories in the past, but this novel put me to sleep 8 nights in a row. There are way too many characters to keep up, the story is confusing, and the characterizations weak. Aside from an amusing quip about former president Clinton (on page 212), this book failed to elicit even a snicker. One of the few books I´ve started, but not finished. Even an abundance of dogs and an absence of cats couldn´t redeem this stinker. Sorry. HHD.¤

5) Paperback Book Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Grove Press. this is my first exposure to barry hannah - and if his other work is anything like this novel, i can do without him. i read this for a class where most people were praising his prose but i found it inconsistent - flowery/harlequin through some passages and gritty/masculine through others. this didn´t hold for me. hannah´s writing comes across as fake and forced. i´m a big fan of po-mo lit and hannah doesn´t hold a candle to delillo.¤

Barry Hannah has long been considered one of the country´s best living writers, whose singular voice and wicked genius for storytelling have earned him legions of diehard fans. His first novel in ten years, Yonder Stands Your Orphan opens with the establishment of an orphans´ camp and the discovery of an abandoned car with two skeletons in the trunk. Man Mortimer, a pimp and casino pretty boy who resembles dead country singer Conway Twitty, has just been betrayed, and his revenge becomes a madness that will ravage the Mississippi community of Eagle Lake and give vent to his lifelong fascination with knives. The pompous young sheriff is useless at solving the crimes, so Mortimer´s only challengers are three eccentric Christians -- a disgraced doctor and two ex-bikers, all prey to their addictions -- and an African-American Vietnam veteran whose wife is ill with cancer. Mortimer has a hold on each one of them -- a long-standing debt, a forgotten crime, or responsibilities they cannot yet desert. Yonder Stands Your Orphan paints a searing picture of the American South and establishes Barry Hannah once again as one of the most important writers in America.

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