Chris Offutt

Out of the Woods

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Seven years ago, Chris Offutt made his literary debut with Kentucky Straight, a fiercely original collection that earned him not only critical praise but many prestigious awards.The eight new stories in Out of the Woods mark Offutt's return to the form in which he first displayed his astonishing talent. Offutt, who draws landscape and constructs dialogue with the eyes and ears of a native son (The Miami Herald), is on strong home turf here, capturing those who have left the Kentucky hills and long to return. These are stories of gravediggers and drifters, gamblers and truck drivers a long way from home, tales that are so full of hard edges th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-684-85376-5
EAN: 9780684853765
Produktnummer: 9388822
Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Seitenangabe: 176 S.
Gattung: Stories
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D1.3 cm 150 g
Gewicht: 150

Über den Autor

Chris Offutt grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky and has held more than fifty part-time jobs. For his first three books -- Kentucky Straight, The Same River Twice, and The Good Brother -- he received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award. He currently lives in Iowa City, where he is a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.