The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

by Andre Dubus III, Breece D'J Pancake

Overview

A collection of short stories that memorably capture American life in rural Appalachia by Breece D'J Pancake, the brilliant writer praised by Joyce Carol Oates as "a young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's." 

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia with astonishing power and grace. 

"Breece D'J Pancake's is an exceptional voice: gritty, mordant, invested with the texture of stroked reality, urgent, and haunting." —Margaret Atwood

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316715973
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	192
Sales rank:	322,845
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.62(d)

About the Author

Hometown:

Newbury, MA

Date of Birth:

1959

Place of Birth:

California

Education:

University of Texas at Austin

Table of Contents

	Foreword	3
	Trilobites	21
	Hollow	39
	A Room Forever	53
	Fox Hunters	61
	Time and Again	83
	The Mark	89
	The Scrapper	101
	The Honored Dead	115
	The Way It Has to Be	127
	The Salvation of Me	133
	In the Dry	147
	First Day of Winter	163
	Afterword	171
	A New Afterword	179

Editorial Reviews

"Breece D'J Pancake's is an exceptional voice: gritty, mordant, invested with the texture of stroked reality, urgent, and haunting."—Margaret Atwood

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