Town Smokes

A collection of nine short stories set in the American South depicted as odd and idiosyncratic. Emerging from the harsh realities of difficult lives the stories are full of the violence of love and the love of violence. The author won the 1995 Steinbeck Award for "Dogs of God".

About the author

Pinckney Benedict was born in 1964, attended Princeton University and graduated from the creative writing programme at the University of Iowa. He currently lives in West Virginia on the family dairy farm where he grew up. He is the author of another collection of stories, The Wrecking Yard, and a novel, Dogs of God, for which he won the Steinbeck Award.

Product details

• Authors: Pinckney Benedict
• Publisher: Vintage
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.11.1995
• EAN: 9780749395568
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-9556-8
• No. of pages: 178
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 196 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Short Stories, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Appalachian Mountains, c 1980 to c 1989, FICTION / World Literature / American / 20th Century