| The Stories of Breece d'j Pancake Contributor(s): Dubus, Andre (Author), Pancake, Breece D'j (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316715972 ISBN-13: 9780316715973 Publisher: Back Bay Books OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of 26. In 1983 Little, Brown and Company's posthumous publication of this book -- a collection of stories that depict, with astonishing power and grace, the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia -- electrified the literary world with a force that still resounds across two decades. "The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake" has remained continuously in print, and Back Bay Books takes pride in now making the collection available in this new trade paperback edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Small Town & Rural |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2003265314 |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 5.58" W x 8.28" (0.41 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - West Virginia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |