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Airships Study Guide

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by Barry Hannah
About 3 pages (1,006 words)
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Many of Hannah's stories deal with failed, frustrated affairs between men and women. Rarely does sex have anything to do with love. More often sex is a transaction, an instinct, or bribe.

Love is frequently an uneasy combination of responsibility, guilt, and lust.

Friendship between men, although it too usually derives from interdependence, offers considerably greater promise in Hannah's work than relationships between men and women.

Violence is commonplace in these stories. Those that deal with the Civil War come by violence almost naturally, but so do many of Hannah's contemporary stories. The deaths he.....

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Airships from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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