Knockemstiff
By Donald Ray Pollock
By Donald Ray Pollock
By Donald Ray Pollock
By Donald Ray Pollock
By Donald Ray Pollock
Read by Kirby Heyborne, Mark Bramhall, MacLeod Andrews, Andrew Eiden, David Garelick, Matt Godfrey, Dan Woren, Rob Shapiro, R. C. Bray, Amy Landon and Joe Ochman
By Donald Ray Pollock
Read by Kirby Heyborne, Mark Bramhall, MacLeod Andrews, Andrew Eiden, David Garelick, Matt Godfrey, Dan Woren, Rob Shapiro, R. C. Bray, Amy Landon and Joe Ochman
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$16.95
Mar 10, 2009 | ISBN 9780767928304
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Mar 18, 2008 | ISBN 9780385525404
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Nov 20, 2018 | ISBN 9781984837806
378 Minutes
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Praise
“Knockemstiff is a powerful, remarkable, exceptional book.”
—Los Angeles Times
“More engaging than any new fiction in years.”
—Chuck Palahniuk
“Pollock’s voice is fresh and full-throated…His steely, serrated prose…calls to mind Harry Crews.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“[Donald Ray Pollock] could be the next important voice in American fiction.”
—Wall Street Journal
“These are absorbing stories that linger and haunt. They crept up on me, leaving me breathless and shaken.”
—Oregonian
“Startling, bleak, uncompromising, and funny…This is as raw as American fiction gets. It is an unforgettable experience.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Here is a collection of stories that are perhaps unique in our time…Wry and raw and poignant, these extraordinary stories are gritty with the yeast of folks caught in the act of being only too human.”
—Larry Heinemann, author of Paco’s Story
“Profanely comic…Pollock’s tales are spiked with a lurid panache that handily earns its own literary genre: Southern Ohio Gothic.”
—Elle
“Pollock doesn’t so much push the envelope as incinerate it, but his potent narrative gifts (and pitch-black humor) make it impossible to look away from the flames.”
—The Washington Post
“This electrifying collection of linked stories uses the voices of the rural hamlet of Knockemstiff to create a coherent world of echoing themes and recurring characters that has the drive and impact of a fine novel. Pollock brings grace and precision to colloquial language, and the ferocious integrity of his vision is flat-out stunning. Pollock grapples with savagery and reveals primal tenderness. After every story in Knockemstiff I had to take a walk and let my head cool down. I keep reaching for some other writer to compare him with—maybe a Raymond Carver with hope and vitality, or a godless Flannery O’Connor—but Pollock is no shadow of anybody else. This is a powerful talent at work.”
—Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love
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