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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983)

by Breece D'J Pancake

Other authors: James Alan McPherson (Foreword)

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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.
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I need to get my own copy of this. The author was in the writing program at UVa when I attended. His stories are set in West Virginia. I think Jayne Ann Phillips quote from the cover describes the book well: "Breece Pancake's stories comprise no less than an American "Dubliners". We find here a landscape preserved in rich sadness because it is forgotten, a people whose lives are informed by loss, wrenching cruelty, and the luminous dignity which marks the endurance of all that is most human." ( )
  pollycallahan | Jul 1, 2023 |
Racconti che parlano di natura e uomini da vicino, con semplicità e maestosità. Non griderei al capolavoro, ma il respiro da classico americano di questa scrittura è innegabile. ( )
  d.v. | May 16, 2023 |
Rake, goed geschreven en uit het leven gegrepen kortverhalen over de uitzichtloosheid van het bestaan in het Amerikaanse binnenland. De tragische auteur Breece ‘dj’ Pancake was jong en erg getalenteerd, maar besloot zelf uit het leven te stappen.
Zijn nalatenschap zijn 12 kortverhalen die het harde leven in het binnenland tastbaar maken voor de lezer: over afwezige en dronken vaders, ontwrichte families, kansloos opgroeien, vechten als reden van bestaan, ...
Knappe bundel voor lezers van Harry Crews & Donald Ray Pollock ( )
  GertDeBie | Mar 22, 2021 |
This was an interesting read. The stories are walk-of-life sort of yarns that are distinctive of their settings and how they influence the characters and their actions. This is a very different kind of writing, and short story form, that I've dealt with and it's quite original in its conception. Overall, an intriguing read and one recommended if you value American short stories.

3 stars. ( )
  DanielSTJ | Apr 29, 2020 |
great collection of a writer we lost too soon. ( )
  ThomasPluck | Apr 27, 2020 |
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Breece D'J Pancakeprimary authorall editionscalculated
McPherson, James AlanForewordsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Dubus, Andre, IIIAfterwordsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
וולק, ארזTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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I open the truck's door, step onto the brick side street.
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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.

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Pancake published six short stories in his lifetime, mostly in The Atlantic. These stories and six more that had not been published at the time of his death were collected in The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983). The volume was reprinted in 2002 with a new afterword by Andre Dubus III.

Contents:
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  • Hollow
  • A Room Forever
  • Fox Hunters
  • Time and Again
  • The Mark
  • The Scrapper
  • The Honored Dead
  • The Way It Has to Be
  • The Salvation of Me
  • In the Dry
  • First Day of Winter
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