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The Stories of Breece D’J Pancake

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By Andre Dubus III

By Breece D’J Pancake

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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

  • "Breece D'J Pancake's is an exceptional voice: gritty, mordant, invested with the texture of stroked reality, urgent, and haunting."
    Margaret Atwood

On Sale
Jul 1, 2002
Page Count
192 pages
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN-13
9780316715973

Andre Dubus III

About the Author

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals.

Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963).

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Breece D’J Pancake

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.

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