Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt

Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt

Kentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These riveting, often heartbreaking stories, take us through country that is unmapped. They are set in a nameless Appalachian community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occupation; where hunting is not a sport but a means of survival. These are stories of coal miners and backwoods medicine men, of gamblers and marijuana farmers, tales of real tragedy and unutterable strangeness that convey their sense of place so vividly that we feel its ground rise beneath our feet.
 
Offutt has received a James Michener Grant and a Kentucky Arts Council Award.

Kentucky Straight and The Same River Twice are two books by Chris Offutt. He was named one of Granta's Best Young American Fiction Writers after receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Award, and an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. With his wife and two sons, he lives in Missoula, Montana.

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ISBN 13	9780679738862
ISBN 10	067973886X
Title	Kentucky Straight
Author	Chris Offutt
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1992-10-27
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.