The Boston Globe, September 24th, 1987
HEY JACK! by Barry Hannah. Dutton/Seymour Lawrence. 133 pp. $15.95 In Barry Hannah's fourth novel - Hey Jack!" -- a man named Homer figures life "has not been so much lately" so maybe he'll "share the tales of our little town." He drives around. He looks over the town. He relates about Gramps, who "likes to get tight on Stolichnaya and shoot his .22 at the chickens." Soon enough, he's limning a kind of literary township, sort of one of those postage stamp counties like Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha. It's like "Winesburg, Ohio," sort of, only now the populace runs from Harmon, who "thinks he is a du...
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