Trilobites & Other Stories
  • Published: 25 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473520462
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Trilobites & Other Stories

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25 Jun 2014
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1 Sep 2014
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The best, most sincere writer I've ever read' Kurt Vonnegut

A lost classic of twentieth century American fiction. 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 literary world with a force that still resounds across two decades.

The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death.

'It would be easy to allow his one collection of stories to be buried under the landslide of books published every year. But it’s worth doing a little excavating to dig it up. The past few years have seen late-in-the-day and posthumous revivals of interest in writers such ... John Williams. Get out your pickaxes'
New Yorker

Breece D’J Pancake left behind an astonishing achievement. He was a master of a distinctly American vernacular, which he used to remind us of all the ways that fiction could teach us about ourselves. These stories are absolutely essential reading - Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds
  • Published: 25 June 2014
  • ISBN: 9781473520462
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192
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Praise for Trilobites & Other Stories

The best, most sincere writer I've ever read

Kurt Vonnegut

Breece D’J Pancake left behind an astonishing achievement. He was a master of a distinctly American vernacular, which he used to remind us of all the ways that fiction could teach us about ourselves. These stories are absolutely essential reading

Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds

This is an exceptional voice; gritty, mordant, invested with the texture of stroked reality; urgent and haunting

Margaret Atwood

Muscular, precise, lyric and unforgettable… Utterly singular

Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

Simple, rich with dialogue and precious

Anna Fielding, Stylist

[Pancake’s] words…combined with an unsparing vision of humanity create the spine-tingling sense that you’re reading an original

Max Liu, Independent

Haunting brilliance

John Dugdale, Literary Review

By any standards, [the story "Trilobites"] is a masterpiece; that it is an artistic debut is astonishing… To say that Breece D’J Pancake is not well enough known is a massive understatement… Quite simply, a literary genius

John Burnside, Guardian

Impressive

Philip Maughan, New Statesman