Chris Offutt, Author . Simon & Schuster $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-86551-5
Following his 1993 memoir, The Same River Twice, readers and critics clamored for Offutt to recapture that success with a similar book. It's now been achieved. Offutt turns his impressive storytelling skills and unerring eye for detail on his...
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Chris Offutt, Author Vintage Books USA $14 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-73886-2
The stories in this debut collection share more than a setting in poor and sparsely populated Kentucky; they share a certainty and frankness of language that renders them powerful. When a young boy's grandfather presents himself after an extended...
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Chris Offutt, Author Simon & Schuster $17.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-78734-9
What keeps this first book by Offut from becoming a familiar nonfictional Bildungsroman is the author's sensitivity to nature and his lyrical prose in writing about it. Offut, however, is far less successful in describing people: his memoir is...
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Chris Offutt, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-80983-0
His raw, mystical tales of life in the Kentucky backwoods in his short-story collection Kentucky Straight, earned Offutt a Whiting Award. In his eagerly awaited first novel (he is also the author of a memoir, The Same River Twice), Offutt seems...
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Chris Offutt, Author Simon & Schuster $21 (176p) ISBN 978-0-684-82556-4
Missing Kentucky, even when one lives there, is the emotional linchpin of the nine spare and stunning stories in this second collection by Offutt (Kentucky Straight; The Good Brother). Many of the entries previously appeared in magazines such as...
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Chris Offutt. Atria, $26 (274p) ISBN 978-1-501-11246-1
A son grapples with the lurid, overbearing legacy of his eccentric father in this conflicted memoir. Novelist and screenwriter Offutt (The Good Brother) catalogued the literary oeuvre of his father, Andrew, after his death. The list included more...
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Chris Offutt. Grove, $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2779-2
Offutt’s exceptional new novel (following his memoir My Father, the Pornographer) brings to light with gritty, heartfelt precision what one character, a social worker, calls the “two Kentuckys, east and west, dirt and blacktop.” The book follows...
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