The Collected Breece d'j Pancake: Stories, Fragments, Letters
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A definitive edition of the haunted and haunting stories of the legendary West Virginia writer, with rare unfinished stories and fragments and revealing letters Breece D'J Pancake published only a handful of stories before he took his own life in 1979, just shy of his twenty-seventh birthday. Those stories and a small number of others found among his papers after his death comprise the remarkable posthumous collection The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake (1983), recognized at the time as 'an American Dubliners' (Jayne Anne Phillips) and a collection by a 'young writer of such extraordinary gifts that one is tempted to compare his debut to Hemingway's' (Joyce Carol Oates). Kurt Vonnegut called him 'merely the best writer, the most sincere writer I've ever read.' Today his diverse admirers include Margaret Atwood, Andre Dubus III, Tom Waits, and Lorde. The Collected Breece D'J Pancake brings together the original landmark book, several story drafts and fragments, and a selection of
