Trilobites and Other Stories

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 YorkerBreece 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

Product details

• Authors: J, Breece Pancake, Breece D&apos Pancake, Breece D'J Pancake, Breece D'J. Pancake, Breece D''j. Pancake
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.06.2014
• EAN: 9780099583370
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958337-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE CLASSICS
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, stoner; revolutionary road; john williams; richard yates