Name: The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters
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Author: Pancake, Breece D'j ; Phillips, Jayne Anne
ISBN: 9781598536720

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The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters

Type

Physical Book

Author

Breece D'J Pancake

Introduction by

Jayne Anne Phillips

Publisher

Library of America

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.1 x 14.0 x 3.3 cm

Weight

0.48 kg.

ISBN13

9781598536720

Synopsis "The Collected Breece D'J Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters "

A definitive edition of the haunted and haunting stories of the legendary West Virginia writer, with rare unfinished stories and fragments and revealing letters Breece D'J Pancake published only a handful of stories before he took his own life in 1979, just shy of his twenty-seventh birthday. Those stories and a small number of others found among his papers after his death comprise the remarkable posthumous collection The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983), recognized at the time as an American Dubliners (Jayne Anne Phillips) and a collection by a young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's (Joyce Carol Oates). Kurt Vonnegut called him merely the best writer, the most sincere writer I've ever read. Today his diverse admirers include Margaret Atwood, Andre Dubus III, Tom Waits, and Lorde. The Collected Breece D'J Pancake brings together the original landmark book, several story drafts and fragments, and a selection of Pancake's letters to offer an unprecedented picture of his life and art. Among the unfinished stories are fragments from Pancake's two planned novels. The letters document his relationship with writers such as Peter Taylor, John Casey, James Alan McPherson, and Mary Lee Settle, and offer a picture of his collaborative relationship with his mother, who sent him newspaper clippings and helped him research his stories. Pancake's stories are the only stories written in just this way, Jayne Anne Phillips writes in her introduction, from inside the minds of protagonists coming of age in the mountains of an Appalachian world closed to others. At once beautiful and relentlessly bleak, the stories concern miners, truckers, farmers, waitresses, and others facing constricted economic and life prospects. In one way or another, his characters are stuck, hoping for a change in fortune they can neither relinquish nor quite bring themselves to believe in, the land and the past making equally strong claims on their darkening present.

Jayne Anne Phillips

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Jayne Anne Phillips (West Virginia, USA, 1952) is an acclaimed writer and professor. She has held teaching positions at prestigious institutions such as Harvard University and Boston University, and has published anthologies, novels, short stories, and essays.

Her literary work includes “Black Tickets” (1979), a collection of stories that established her as a distinctive voice in American literature. “Machine Dreams” (1984), and “Lark and Termite” (2009), nominated for the National Book Award. Her most recent novel, “Night Watch” (2023), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2024.

Phillips has been awarded the Pushcart Prize and the Fels Prize from the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses for her book “Sweethearts”, and in 2024 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her work has been translated into more than ten languages, consolidating her international recognition.

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