The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters (Hardcover)

Breece D'J Pancake

ISBN 10: 1598536729 / ISBN 13: 9781598536720

Editore: The Library of America, New York, 2020

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Hardcover. A definitive edition of the haunted and haunting stories of the legendary West Virginia writer, with rare unfinished stories and fragments and revealing lettersBreece D'J Pancake published only a handful of stories before he took his own life in 1979, just shy of his twenty-seventh birthday. Those stories and a small number of others found among his papers after his death comprise the remarkable posthumous collection The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983), recognized at the time as "an American Dubliners" (Jayne Anne Phillips) and a collection by a "young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's" (Joyce Carol Oates). Kurt Vonnegut called him "merely the best writer, the most sincere writer I've ever read." Today his diverse admirers include Margaret Atwood, Andre Dubus III, Tom Waits, and Lorde.The Collected Breece D'J Pancake brings together the original landmark book, several story drafts and fragments, and a selection of Pancake's letters to offer an unprecedented picture of his life and art. Among the unfinished stories are fragments from Pancake's two planned novels. The letters document his relationship with writers such as Peter Taylor, John Casey, James Alan McPherson, and Mary Lee Settle, and offer a picture of his collaborative relationship with his mother, who sent him newspaper clippings and helped him research his stories. "Pancake's stories are the only stories written in just this way," Jayne Anne Phillips writes in her introduction, "from inside the minds of protagonists coming of age in the mountains of an Appalachian world closed to others." At once beautiful and relentlessly bleak, the stories concern miners, truckers, farmers, waitresses, and others facing constricted economic and life prospects. In one way or another, his characters are stuck, hoping for a change in fortune they can neither relinquish nor quite bring themselves to believe in, the land and the past making equally strong claims on their darkening present. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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• Titolo: The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters (Hardcover)
• Editore: The Library of America, New York
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1598536729
• ISBN 13: 9781598536720
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: new

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A definitive edition of the haunted and haunting stories of the legendary West Virginia writer, with rare unfinished stories and fragments and revealing letters

Breece D'J Pancake published only a handful of stories before he took his own life in 1979, just shy of his twenty-seventh birthday. Those stories and a small number of others found among his papers after his death comprise the remarkable posthumous collection The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983), recognized at the time as "an American Dubliners" (Jayne Anne Phillips) and a collection by a "young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's" (Joyce Carol Oates). Kurt Vonnegut called him "merely the best writer, the most sincere writer I've ever read." Today his diverse admirers include Margaret Atwood, Andre Dubus III, Tom Waits, and Lorde.

The Collected Breece D'J Pancake brings together the original landmark book, several story drafts and fragments, and a selection of Pancake's letters to offer an unprecedented picture of his life and art. Among the unfinished stories are fragments from Pancake's two planned novels. The letters document his relationship with writers such as Peter Taylor, John Casey, James Alan McPherson, and Mary Lee Settle, and offer a picture of his collaborative relationship with his mother, who sent him newspaper clippings and helped him research his stories.

"Pancake's stories are the only stories written in just this way," Jayne Anne Phillips writes in her introduction, "from inside the minds of protagonists coming of age in the mountains of an Appalachian world closed to others." At once beautiful and relentlessly bleak, the stories concern miners, truckers, farmers, waitresses, and others facing constricted economic and life prospects. In one way or another, his characters are stuck, hoping for a change in fortune they can neither relinquish nor quite bring themselves to believe in, the land and the past making equally strong claims on their darkening present.

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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.

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.