num_pages: 400
description: Love and torment, lunacy and desire, tenderness and war — the stories in Bats Out of Hell provide a brilliant, dazzling odyssey into American life. Barry Hannah's reputation as a master of the short story, first established in 1978 with the publication of Airships, is magnified in this volatile, long-awaited collection of new stories. Astonishing in range and in the portrayal of the human heart, these fierce and radar-perfect stories give us individuals with whom hilarity and pain combine with true and startling clarity.
language: English
title: Bats Out of Hell
titlecomplete: Bats Out of Hell
genres: Short Stories, American, Southern, Literary Fiction, Southern Gothic, Fiction
ratings_count: 410
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Grove Press