The stories of Breece D'J Pancake
By: foreword by James Alan McPherson ; afterword by John Casey.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
Subjects: West Virginia -- Fiction.
Description: Breece Pancake was a young man of lowerclass origins from West Virginia, who went to the University of Virginia to study writing. At age 27, he ended his life, leaving behind these 12 stories. They reflect the occupations and preoccupations of the people he grew up with: mining, farming, crewing a riverboat, hunting, and carousing, among others. Idiom-filled, belyingly simple (with devastating understatements), Pancake's prose is as taut and mighty as flexed muscle.
Notes: "An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

Several stories are available on the Atlantic Monthly website:

* [Trilobites][1]
* [In the Dry][2]
* [The Honored Dead][3]
* [Hollow][4]


  [1]: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/77dec/pancake.htm
  [2]: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/78aug/pancake.htm
  [3]: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/81jan/pancake.htm
  [4]: http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/82oct/pancake.htm
Table of contents: title: Trilobites; title: Hollow; title: A room forever; title: Fox hunters; title: Time and again; title: The mark; title: The scrapper; title: The honored dead; title: The way it has to be; title: The salvation of me; title: In the dry; title: First day of winter.