Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 26/06/2014
ISBN: 9780099583370
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 138g
RRP: £9.99
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
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
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 26/06/2014
ISBN: 9780099583370
Length: 192 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm
Weight: 138g
RRP: £9.99
The best, most sincere writer I've ever read
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
This is an exceptional voice; gritty, mordant, invested with the texture of stroked reality; urgent and haunting
Muscular, precise, lyric and unforgettable… Utterly singular
Simple, rich with dialogue and precious
[Pancake’s] words…combined with an unsparing vision of humanity create the spine-tingling sense that you’re reading an original
Haunting brilliance
By any standards, [the story “Trilobites”] is a masterpiece; that it is an artistic debut is astonishing… To say that Breece D’J Pancake is not well enough known is a massive understatement… Quite simply, a literary genius
Impressive