Knockemstiff

Pollock, Donald Ray

ISBN 10: 1846551560 / ISBN 13: 9781846551567

Published by Harvill Secker, 2008

About this Item

Publisher: Harvill Secker, London, 2008.FINE in thick cardboard boards, as issued. First British Edition, First Printing. As new. Unread. Pristine. Seller Inventory # 2201150008

Bibliographic Details

Title: Knockemstiff

Publisher: Harvill Secker

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Like New

Edition: First British Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and often hilarious collection of stories set in the tiny Appalachian town of Knockemstiff, Ohio, a community so deprived and diminished it no longer appears on any map.

The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the malignant shadow of their parents; raised on abuse, alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, they are stunted in every possible way: emotionally, mentally, sometimes physically. They talk a lot about escape but they never so much as cross the county line.

The stories in Knockemstiff are simple and compact, blunt and brutal, but are also infused with a deep sympathy for the incapacitating loneliness of poverty, neglect and severely limited horizons.

Knockemstiff is a human, very funny and unforgettable debut from a stunning new voice in American fiction.

About the Author:

Don Pollock grew up in Knockemstiff and worked in the Mead papermill for thirty-two years before leaving to become a writer. He teaches literature and composition at Ohio State University.