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Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt

Kentucky Straight

Stories

Stories

By Chris Offutt

By Chris Offutt

By Chris Offutt

By Chris Offutt

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Part of Vintage Contemporaries

Category: Literary Fiction

Category: Literary Fiction

Paperback $15.00

Oct 27, 1992 | 192 Pages

Ebook $11.99

Apr 13, 2011 | 192 Pages

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    About Kentucky Straight

    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.

    About Kentucky Straight

    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.

    About Chris Offutt

    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… More about Chris Offutt

    About Chris Offutt

    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… More about Chris Offutt

    Product Details

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 27, 1992 | 192 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679738862

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 13, 2011 | 192 Pages | ISBN 9780307791818

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    Praise

    “From the hills and tough as oak, in his best stories Offutt bring to mind D. H. Lawrence, blood-driven and holy. His people have an heroic dignity.”—James Salter
     
    “These are wild, tough, magical stories, often as shocking as real life, and every one a heartbreaker. Chris Offutt plainly loves the English language and knows how to make it do wondrous things.”—Josephine Humphreys

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