Trilobites & Other Stories

Trilobites & Other Stories

Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Paperback Published on: 26/06/2014
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Trilobites & Other Stories
Breece D'J Pancake - best name ever!
He was also a writer with an incredible sense of place who conjured the landscape and peoples of West Virginia in these 12 short stories. His suicide in 19... READ MORE
Sara Crowley at Brighton

Synopsis

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

  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • ISBN: 9780099583370
  • Number of pages: 192
  • Weight: 138g
  • Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mm

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Trilobites & Other Stories
World class writing.
This is some of the best writing I've ever read, and I've read a lot. The stories are un-put-downable. A tragedy for American literature that he died so yo... READ MORE
ynysgrif