The Stories Of Breece D'j Pancake
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The Stories Of Breece D'j Pancake by Breece D'j Pancake
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. One is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's' - Joyce Carol Oates 'An exceptional voice' - Margaret Atwood 'The best, most sincere writer I've ever read' - Kurt Vonnegut'
Breece D'J Pancake (June 29, 1952 - April 8, 1979) was born in West Virginia. He attended Marshall University and was a graduate of the creative writing program at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he took his life before he was twenty-seven. Pancake published only a few short stories in his lifetime, which together with a handful of others that were unpublished at the time of his death, were collected in The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983). Born and raised in West Virginia, Jayne Anne Phillips is the author of two short-story collections, Black Tickets and Fast Lanes, and five novels, including Machine Dreams, Lark & Termite, and most recently Quiet Dell. She directs the MFA Program at Rutgers-Newark in New Jersey.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780316715973 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316715972 |
| Title | The Stories Of Breece D'j Pancake |
| Author | Breece D'j Pancake |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Back Bay Books |
| Year published | 2003-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Rediscovery) 2003 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |