The Stories of Breece d'j Pancake

By: Breece D'J. Pancake

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Paperback | 1 July 2002 | Edition Number 1

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192 Pages

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20.5 x 13.5 x 1.5

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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

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"...an exceptional voice: gritty, mordant...urgent and haunting." - Margaret Atwood; "Stunning...powerful and astonishing...Brilliance is on these pages." - Karen Heller, USA Today; "...no less than an American Dubliners." - Jayne Ann Phillips; "The twelve stories in this collection will surely endure, will continue to illuminate that deeper, darker part of us all - our insistent need to love and be loved, our flesh and blood fallibility, our eternal yearning for grace." - Andre Dubus

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