The Stories Of Breece D'j Pancake

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of twenty-six. 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. 'One is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's' - Joyce Carol Oates 'An exceptional voice' - Margaret Atwood 'The best, most sincere writer I've ever read' - Kurt Vonnegut

Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Rediscovery) 2003

“"Breece D'J Pancake's is an exceptional voice: gritty, mordant, invested with the texture of stroked reality, urgent, and haunting."-- Margaret Atwood”

"...an exceptional voice: gritty, mordant...urgent and haunting." - Margaret Atwood; "Stunning...powerful and astonishing...Brilliance is on these pages." - Karen Heller, USA Today; "...no less than an American Dubliners." - Jayne Ann Phillips; "The twelve stories in this collection will surely endure, will continue to illuminate that deeper, darker part of us all - our insistent need to love and be loved, our flesh and blood fallibility, our eternal yearning for grace." - Andre Dubus

Breece D'J Pancake (1952-79) taught English at Virginia military schools. During his lifetime his short fiction was published primarily in The Atlantic.

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