"Boomerang" is an obviously autobiographical story, and unlike what you might expect, it is not that exciting. Like "Ray", Hannah's best novel, "Boomerang consists of small vignettes and lacks a plot. The only thing that holds it together and which makes it interesting to read is the language. There are moments of hilarious and tragic insight in this story of friends and lovers, the one that still stands out to me after 2 years is the passage concerning the death of a friend. He died alone on the golf course, "... - to go away with your sport shoes on, trying to get the ball to go into the sky and hit God's dumb foot" (52). The language is there but the story is not.

"Never Die" takes place in the dying Old West. Rarely has Hannah displayed a set of more bizarre and grotesque characters, but unfortunately, the story (and interest for it) gets lost in this post- modern puzzle of honor and revenge. It is not a bad novel, but knowing that Hannah can do (and has done) much better, it seems only halfway done.