Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

A collection of short stories from “a young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's” (Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Times Book Review ). Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age 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 lite