Stories of Breece D'J Pancake

by Breece D'J Pancake

• ISBN13: 9780316690126
• ISBN10: 0316690120
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-02-26
• Publisher: Hachette

Summary

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia.

Author Biography

Breece D'J Pancake was born in West Virginia in 1952. He attended Marshall University, taught English at Virginia military schools, and then entered the creative writing program at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he died in 1979. During his lifetime, his short fiction was published primarily in The Atlantic

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 3
Trilobites	p. 21
Hollow	p. 39
A Room Forever	p. 53
Fox Hunters	p. 61
Time and Again	p. 83
The Mark	p. 89
The Scrapper	p. 101
The Honored Dead	p. 115
The Way It Has to Be	p. 127
The Salvation of Me	p. 133
In the Dry	p. 147
First Day of Winter	p. 163
Afterword	p. 171
A New Afterword	p. 179
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