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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake - Breece D'J Pancake, James Alan McPherson, John Casey
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780805007206 (0805007202)
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Pages no: 178
Edition language: English
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pseudolibrary
pseudolibrary rated it
4.0 The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
Let the author's middle initials be a lesson. These are stories of stumbling small-towners and troublemakers. There are more than a few criminals. It's in dialect, but it's fast-paced. It feels like all the buildings Pancake takes you through are falling apart, and so are the characters' lives. It's...
basswood
basswood rated it
A very beautiful and transporting writer, in which I can personally see some influence of Kerouac and Salinger, rather than the Hemingway described by Joyce Carol Oates. What a shame his life was ended so early, a shame for him, and a shame for us. The characters in Pancake's stories here remind me ...
AC
AC rated it
Breece Pancake, who committed suicide at the age of 27, leaving behind only a small collection of stories, seems to be "a writer's writer". That is, writers greatly admire (even to the point of awe..., they say), his technical skills. I have no reason, and am in no position to dispute that.As a rea...
tymelgren
tymelgren rated it
Felt like I was sitting in my truck, watching the same story happen over and over. It was an okay story, but once I heard it once, why tell me it twelve more times. "Trilobites" was my favorite version of it, and "Fox Hunters," "The Mark," and "The Honored Dead" are the other ones I'll remember a ...
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