Trilobites & Other Stories
Author(s): Breece Pancake
The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death. "It would be easy to allow his one collection of stories to be buried under the landslide of books published every year. But it's worth doing a little excavating to dig it up. The past few years have seen late-in-the-day and posthumous revivals of interest in writers such...John Williams. Get out your pickaxes". (New Yorker).
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"The best, most sincere writer I've ever read" -- Kurt Vonnegut "Breece D'J Pancake left behind an astonishing achievement. He was a master of a distinctly American vernacular, which he used to remind us of all the ways that fiction could teach us about ourselves. These stories are absolutely essential reading" Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds "This is an exceptional voice; gritty, mordant, invested with the texture of stroked reality; urgent and haunting" Margaret Atwood "Muscular, precise, lyric and unforgettable... Utterly singular" -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times
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- : Random House UK
- : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
- : 31 August 2014
- : 01 September 2014
- : books
Special Fields
- : Breece Pancake