The Stories Of Breece D'j Pancake

Afterword by Andre Dubus III

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of twenty-six. In 1983 the posthumous publication of this book — a collection of stories that depict, with astonishing power and grace, the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia — electrified the literary world with a force that still resounds across two decades.