Country dark
By: Chris Offutt
Edition: First Grove Press hardcover edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780802127792
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Social life and customs; Veterans; Fiction
Description: Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British aristocracy,