Knockemstiff (a first printing) knock em stiff

Pollock, Donald Ray

ISBN 10: 1846551560 / ISBN 13: 9781846551567

Verlag: Harvill Secker,uk, 2008

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Knockemstiff (a first printing) knock em stiff
• Verlag: Harvill Secker,uk
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1846551560
• ISBN-13: 9781846551567
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and often hilarious collection of stories set in the tiny Appalachian town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, a community so deprived and diminished it no longer appears on any map. The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the malignant shadow of their parents; raised on abuse, alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, they are stunted in every possible way: emotionally, mentally, sometimes physically. They talk a lot about escape but they never so much as cross the county line. The stories in Knockemstiff are simple and compact, blunt and brutal, but are also infused with a deep sympathy for the incapacitating loneliness of poverty, neglect and severely limited horizons. Knockemstiff is a human, very funny and unforgettable debut from a stunning new voice in American fiction.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

After quitting school at seventeen, Donald Ray Pollock worked at Mead Paper Mill and as a truck driver in Chillicothe, Ohio. After thirty-two years employed as a labourer he enrolled at Ohio State University to study creative writing.

He is the author of two acclaimed books, the cult-classic short-story collection Knockemstiff, which went on to win the PEN/Robert Bingham Fellowship, and the novel The Devil All The Time.

www.donaldraypollock.net