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Trilobites & Other Stories
Breece Pancake
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Description for Trilobites & Other Stories
Paperback. Includes stories that 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. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099583370
SKU
V9780099583370
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-33
About Breece Pancake
Breece D’J Pancake was born in in Charleston, West Virginia in 1952. His unusual middle name ‘D'J’ originated from a misprint of Pancake's middle initials by The Atlantic Monthly (D.J. for Dexter John) when Pancake's first published story, ‘Trilobites’ was published in 1977. Pancake decided not to correct it. In 1979, when he was just twenty-six, Pancake ... Read more
Reviews for Trilobites & Other Stories
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
... Read more
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
... Read more