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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 itâe(tm)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 Dâe(tm)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
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Trilobites and Other Stories, Breece D. J. Pancake
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Trilobites and Other Stories
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Breece D. J. Pancake
- Verlag
- Vintage Classic
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2014
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0099583372
- ISBN13
- 9780099583370
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Historisches Thema, Kurzgeschichten, USA, 20. Jahrhundert, Amerikanische Literatur, Americana
- Bewertung
- 4,2 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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 itâe(tm)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 Dâe(tm)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