Product Description: The 12 stories gathered in this volume serve as evidence of the outsized talent of Breece D’J Pancake, whose life and career were cut tragically short by his own hand. In them, the author demonstrates an uncommon ability for authentically capturing the language and lives of the working poor, conveying the frustration and sense of desperation of a native of rural West Virginia...read more

Twelve stories written during a promising, abruptly ended career illuminate the lives of doomed and despairing brawlers, murderers, drunkards, and demented husbands and wives in West Virginia's mountain hollows. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.