Description
Breece D'J Pancake cut short a remarkably promising writing career when he took his own life in 1979 at the age of 26.
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia with astonishing power and grace.
"Trilobites", the first of Pancake's stories to be published in The Atlantic, elicited an extraordinary immediate response from readers and continues to be widely anthologized.
It has remained continuously in print and is a perennial favorite among aspiring writers, participants in creative writing programs, and students of contemporary American fiction.