The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

<p><strong style=color: rgba(109 108 108 1)>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. </strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(109 108 108 1)>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. </span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(109 108 108 1)>Breece D'J Pancake's is an exceptional voice: gritty mordant invested with the texture of stroked reality urgent and haunting. -Margaret Atwood</strong></p>