Book Description
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of 26. In 1983 Little, Brown and Company's posthumous publication of this book-a collection of stories that depict, with astonishing power and grace, the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia-electrified the literary world with a force that still resounds across two decades. The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake has remained continuously in print, and Back Bay Books takes pride in now making the collection available in this new trade paperback edition.
About the Author
Breece D'J Pancake was born in West Virginia in 1952. He attended Marshall University, taught English at Virginia military schools, and then entered the creative writing program at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he died in 1979. During his lifetime, his short fiction was published primarily in The Atlantic.
Stories of Breece D'J Pancake ANNOTATION
"Short fiction rarely possesses the consistent control and quality displayed in this first collection, which offers a dark, Faulknerian view of contemporary West Virginia..."--Library Journal
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of twenty-six. In 1983 the posthumous publication of this book -- a collection of stories that depict, with astonishing power and grace, the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia -- electrified the literary world with a force that still resounds across two decades.
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