Trilobites and Other Stories
Douban
Breece D'J Pancake
overview
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, fox-hunting, truck-driving, prize-fighting, sex, depression, drinking and death. They are the work of an uncannily observant chronicler of his region, who brilliantly evokes a whole crowd of doomed and despairing brawlers, murderers, drunkards and demented husbands and wives - desperate people desperately alive.
Raw-boned and fiercely original, Trilobites & Other Stories is the summation of a writer whose career, though brief, burned with an incandescent flame.
contents
CONTENTS
Foreword (by James Alan McPherson)
* Trilobites
* Hollow
* A Room Forever
* Fox Hunters
* Time and Again
* The Mark
* The Scrapper
* The Honored Dead
* The Way It Has To Be
* The Salvation of Me
* In the Dry
* First Day of Winter
Afterword (by John Casey)
