{"product_id":"captain-maximus-isbn-9780143139270","title":"Captain Maximus","description":"\u003cb\u003eClassic short stories by a beloved virtuoso of language, craft, and madness from the American South\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the eight stories collected in \u003ci\u003eCaptain Maximus\u003c\/i\u003e, Barry Hannah explores the lives of everymen and eccentrics alike in a showcase of his acerbic wit, dark humor, and stylistic flare. Hannah’s unorthodox prose, characterized by unusual wordplay mixed with hints of Faulkner and Hemingway, captured the post-1970s malaise of American life, endeared him to literary circles, and left a lasting influence on the craft of countless authors. Featuring some of Hannah’s finest work, from the fever dream “Ride, Fly, Penetrate, Loiter” to his film treatment for Robert Altman “Power and Light,” \u003ci\u003eCaptain Maximus\u003c\/i\u003e is the perfect introduction to Barry Hannah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His writing was anarchic and wonderfully funny. He sounded like what you’d get if you stirred three heaping teaspoons of Thomas Pynchon and Terry Southern into a jar of Eudora Welty.”—Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry Hannah \u003c\/b\u003e(1942-2010) was the author of twelve books, and the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Achievement Award, the PEN\/Malamud Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Letters. A longtime writing instructor who taught at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Sewanee, he was the director of the MFA program at the University of Mississippi where his students included Larry Brown and Donna Tartt.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSam Lipsyte\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is the author of the story collections \u003ci\u003eVenus Drive\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Fun Parts \u003c\/i\u003eand the novels: \u003ci\u003eNo One Left to Come Looking for You, Hark\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ask (\u003c\/i\u003ea\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book),\u003ci\u003e The Subject Steve\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHome Land\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and received the Believer Book Award. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, he teaches at Columbia University.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532131053797,"sku":"NP9780143139270","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/captain-maximus-isbn-9780143139270","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}