03221cam a2200397 4500 522765973 TxAuBib 20210904120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802146168 0802146163 B075VDL891 Amazon 156612d0-86e4-40ca-89e4-79b210320089 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3572404 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Offutt, Chris. Country Dark [Libby]. Grove Atlantic, 2018. the south. revenge. Kentucky. bootlegger. American South. the 1960s. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2411kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 2167kB. Fiction. Literature. Mystery. HTML:<p><b>"A smart, rich country noir" from the acclaimed author <i>Kentucky Straight</i> and <i>The Good Brother</i> (Stewart O'Nan, bestselling author of</b> <b><i>Henry, Himself</i>).</b><br /> <br /> Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He's been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, among numerous other honors. His first work of fiction in nearly two decades, <i>Country Dark</i> is a taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970.<br /> <br /> Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British aristocracy, <i>Country Dark</i> is a novel that blends the best of Larry Brown and James M. Cain, with a noose tightening evermore around a man who just wants to protect those he loves. It reintroduces the vital and absolutely distinct voice of Chris Offutt, a voice we've been missing for years.<br /> <br /> "[A] fine homage to a pocket of the country that's as beautiful as it is prone to tragedy."—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i><br /> <br /> "A pleasure all around."—Daniel Woodrell, author of <i>Winter's Bone</i></p>. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 13:21:58. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=156612d0-86e4-40ca-89e4-79b210320089&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=156612d0-86e4-40ca-89e4-79b210320089&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=156612d0-86e4-40ca-89e4-79b210320089&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)