Knockemstiff

Pollock, Donald Ray

ISBN 10: 0385523823 / ISBN 13: 9780385523820

Published by Doubleday, New York, 2008

About this Item

Full number line. ; 206 pages.

Seller Inventory # 40647

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knockemstiff
• Publisher: Doubleday, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385523823
• ISBN 13: 9780385523820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Spanning the era from the mid-1960s to the late 1990s, a collection of stories journeys inside the world of the diverse inhabitants of Knockemstiff, a tough, Midwestern town, as their lives change and intertwine, capturing such characters as the father who pumps his son full of steroids to relive his own days as a body builder, a psychotic rural recluse, and an incestuous pair of siblings. 25,000 first printing.

About the Author

DONALD RAY POLLOCK grew up in Knockemstiff, Ohio. He dropped out of high school to work in a meatpacking plant and then spent over thirty years employed in a paper mill in southern Ohio. Currently, he is a graduate student in the MFA program at Ohio State University. His stories have appeared in the Berkeley Fiction Review, the Journal, Third Coast, Chiron Review, Sou’wester, Boulevard, and Folio, and he has contributed essays on politics to the op-ed page of the New York Times.