Kentucky Straight: Stories by Offutt, Chris

Kentucky Straight: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679738862)

Vendor: Chris Offutt
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Format: Paperback
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Kentucky Straight: Stories by Offutt, Chris

Kentucky Straight: Stories

$15.00
Kentucky Straight: Stories by Offutt, Chris

Kentucky Straight: Stories

$15.00
Format: Paperback
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Kentucky straight is bourbon with no mixer. Kentucky Straight is Kentucky seen without nostalgic gloss. These riveting, often heartbreaking stories, take us through country that is unmapped. They are set in a nameless Appalachian community too small to be called a town, a place where wanting an education is a mark of ungodly arrogance and dowsing for water a legitimate occupation; where hunting is not a sport but a means of survival. These are stories of coal miners and backwoods medicine men, of gamblers and marijuana farmers, tales of real tragedy and unutterable strangeness that convey their sense of place so vividly that we feel its ground rise beneath our feet.

Offutt has received a James Michener Grant and a Kentucky Arts Council Award.

Author: Chris Offutt
ISBN-10: 067973886X
ISBN-13: 9780679738862
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 10/27/1992
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.24w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/14/1992
By Chris Offutt
By Chris Offutt
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Chris Offutt is an award-winning author and screenwriter. He worked on the HBO drama True Blood and the Showtime series Weeds. His books include Kentucky Straight, The Same River Twice, The Good Brother, Out of the Woods, and No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home. His work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Short Stories, and many other anthologies. He lives near Oxford, Mississippi.

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