The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 22nd, 2002
Barry Hannah. Yonder Stands Your Orphan. Atlantic, 2001. 336 pp. $24.00.
Hannah's latest novel is his first in ten years--since 1991's Never Die he's published only two collections of (quite strong) stories. Taking its title from a Bob Dylan song, Yonder Stands Your Orphan has no real central character and only the loosest of plots. But plot and focus are hardly the chief reasons why Hannah should be read. It's all about the sentence, about style, and about the way in which style crafts character. Unique, Hannah's rippling prose creates sorry, down-and-out and (sometimes quite literally) ma...
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