Pinckney Benedict, Author Ontario Review Press $10.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-86538-058-5
In these nine stories, Benedict evokes the world of hard-bitten Southern men who live in shabby weatherbeaten houses or rickety trailers, who work in tire factories or slaughterhouses, who are slow to speak but quick to explode in anger, and whose...
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Pinckney Benedict, Author Nan A. Talese $19 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-42021-1
These nine stories and one radio play are raw slices of rural life that cut to the bone. With the same assurance Benedict brought to Town Smokes , the short-story craftsman, product of a West Virginia dairy farm and Princeton, conjures up America as
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Pinckney Benedict, Author Nan A. Talese $21 (354p) ISBN 978-0-385-42022-8
In this taut, muscular thriller set in contemporary rural West Virginia, short-story writer Benedict ( The Wrecking Yard ) hurtles the reader toward a chillingly apocalyptic climax replete with high-tech weaponry and old-fashioned treachery. Peopled
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