Bound in gray cloth over tan boards, stamped in silver in illustrated dust jacket. The first edition of the author's first book -- a book of linked short stories. Highly regarded first book about "sad, stunted but resilient" lives of people in the hardscrabble Midwest. Signed and dated (in 2009) by Mr. Pollock. 206 pp.

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Title

Knockemstiff (Signed)

Publisher

Doubleday, NY

Publication Date

2008

Language

English

ISBN 10

0385523823

ISBN 13

9780385523820

Binding

Hard Cover

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

Signed

Signed by Author

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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.

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