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Title: Trilobites & Other Stories
Author: PANCAKE BREECE D’J
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/09/2014
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
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
ISBN: 9780099583370