The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Breece D'J Pancake · 1983
Pancake died at 26 and left behind a handful of stories that read like they were carved from West Virginia bedrock. Andre Dubus called him the most gifted fiction writer of his generation. These stories haunt.
The case against
Twelve stories, all in the same key: West Virginia, trapped men, hunting and dirt and thwarted leaving, rendered in a clipped Hemingway register that rarely shifts. One lands hard; a dozen blur through sheer sameness. The legend of the gifted young suicide does some of the lifting that this slim, tonally narrow body of work cannot manage on its own.
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