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Kentucky Straight: Stories

Kentucky Straight: Stories

Name: Kentucky Straight: Stories
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Chris Offutt
ISBN: 9780679738862

Chris Offutt

27/10/1992
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

NC (0 avis)

Couverture de Kentucky Straight: Stories par Chris Offutt

Résumé

Kentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These riveting, often heartbreaking stories, take us through country that is unmapped. They are set in a nameless Appalachian community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occupation; where hunting is not a sport but a means of survival. These are stories of coal miners and backwoods medicine men, of gamblers and marijuana farmers, tales of real tragedy and unutterable strangeness that convey their sense of place so vividly that we feel its ground rise beneath our feet. Offutt has received a James Michener Grant and a Kentucky Arts Council Award.