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Product Description: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Chris Offutt owns one of the finest, surest prose styles around, ready and able to convey the hardest truth without flinching. Now Offutt enters the darkest and most mysterious of places—the cave of a monstrous enigma named Andrew J...read more

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9781501112461 | Atria Books, February 9, 2016, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “Chris Offutt owns one of the finest, surest prose styles around, ready and able to convey the hardest truth without flinching.

Virgil, the good brother, must avenge the death of his hell-raising brother Boyd to fulfill the unwritten code of his Kentucky community, but he decides to escape to Montana, where he finds peace until his past catches up to him

Hardcover:

9780684809830 | Simon & Schuster, June 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Virgil, the good brother, must avenge the death of his hell-raising brother Boyd to fulfill the unwritten code of his Kentucky community, but he decides to escape to Montana, where he finds peace until his past catches up to him

Paperback:

9780684846194 | Simon & Schuster, May 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Virgil, a soft-spoken Kentucky boy, must choose between the unwritten code of the hills and his own sense of morals when his hell-raising oldest brother Boyd is killed

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9781439500606 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $23.00

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Sixty extraordinary portrait photographs, accompanied by a musical CD containing eighteen tracks by some of Iowa's finest musicians and songwriters, capture Iowa's vibrant, live music scene in a study of such artists as Dave Moore, Bo Ramsey, David Zollo, Pieta Brown, and Greg Brown.
By Sandra Louise Dyas and Chris Offutt (foreword by)

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9780877459972 | Har/com edition (Univ of Iowa Pr, June 1, 2007), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Sixty extraordinary portrait photographs, accompanied by a musical CD containing eighteen tracks by some of Iowa's finest musicians and songwriters, capture Iowa's vibrant, live music scene in a study of such artists as Dave Moore, Bo Ramsey, David Zollo, Pieta Brown, and Greg Brown.

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The author of The Same River Twice recalls his painful but ultimately revealing attempt to return home to the rural hills of Kentucky to give back to his hometown community and to record the personal story of his parents-in-law, Holocaust survivors who had emigrated from Poland in 1946. Reprint.

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9780684865515 | Simon & Schuster, April 1, 2002, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The author recalls his painful but ultimately revealing attempts to return home to the rural hills of Kentucky to give back to his community and to record the story of his parents-in-law, Holocaust survivors who had emigrated from Poland in 1946.

Paperback:

9780684865522 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, April 1, 2003), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: The author of The Same River Twice recalls his painful but ultimately revealing attempt to return home to the rural hills of Kentucky to give back to his hometown community and to record the personal story of his parents-in-law, Holocaust survivors who had emigrated from Poland in 1946.

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A consistently reflective, often riotous narrative of the author's progress into manhood ranges from trouble and conflict in his native Kentucky Appalachia, through a tour of America's underbelly, to his marriage and settlement on the Iowa River. Reprint.

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9780671787349 | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 1993, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A narrative of the author's progress into manhood, from trouble and conflict in his native Appalachia, through a tour of America's underbelly, to his marriage and settlement on the Iowa River

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9780743229494 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, March 25, 2003), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A consistently reflective, often riotous narrative of the author's progress into manhood ranges from trouble and conflict in his native Kentucky Appalachia, through a tour of America's underbelly, to his marriage and settlement on the Iowa River.
9780140232530 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1994), cover price $9.95

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9780684825564 | Simon & Schuster, January 1, 1999, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A collection of tales features the devastating experiences of characters from Kentucky

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9780684853765 | Simon & Schuster, February 1, 2000, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: 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.

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Tells the stories of the coal miners, gamblers, marijuana farmers, and backwoods medicine men living in an isolated Appalachian community

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9780679738862 | Vintage Books, November 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Tells the stories of the coal miners, gamblers, marijuana farmers, and backwoods medicine men living in an isolated Appalachian community

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