- Social life and customs, Fiction, Ohio, fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
In this unforgettable work of fiction, Donald Ray Pollock peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents.Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are woebegone, baffled and depraved--but irresistibly, undeniably real.
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Bleak, prestige, classical in form and character-led.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- rawmeticulous
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About the book
- Author
- Donald Ray Pollock
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Penguin Random House
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781409000969
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