Country dark / Chris Offutt.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780802127792
- ISBN: 0802127797
- Physical Description: 231 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grove Press, 2018.
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Subject: | Kentucky > Social life and customs > Fiction. Veterans > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
Available copies
- 24 of 24 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 24 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Adams PL Sys. - Geneva Branch | FIC OFFUTT COU (Text) | 34207002152743 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Benton Co PL - Fowler | F OFF (Text) | 34044000944601 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Bloomfield Eastern Greene Co PL - Bloomfield Main | FIC OFF (Text) | 36803001051395 | FICTION | Available | - |
Clayton-Liberty Township Public Library - Main | FIC OFF (Text) | 38324000397752 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Clinton PL - Clinton | OFF (Text) | 36806002085130 | QUICK READS | Available | - |
Fayette Co PL - Connersville | FIC OFF (Text) | 39230031873910 | Adult Books | Available | - |
Fulton Co PL - Rochester Main Library | FIC OFF (Text) | 33187004333080 | Fiction (adult) | Available | - |
Greensburg-Decatur Co PL - Greensburg | FIC OFFUTT (Text) | 32826014128037 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jennings Co PL - North Vernon | FIC OFF (Text) | 30653001415835 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
LaGrange Co PL - LaGrange Main Library | F OFF (Text) | 30477101156390 | Adult: Fiction | Available | - |
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- Baker & Taylor
A long-awaited novel by the award-winning author ofThe Good Brother is set in rural Kentucky between the Korean War and 1970 and follows the efforts of a young veteran and bootlegger who is pushed into a life-altering act of violence by threats against his family. - Baker & Taylor
In rural Kentucky in the years after the Korean War, Tucker, a young veteran and bootlegger, is pushed into a life-altering act of violence by threats against his family. - Perseus Publishing
Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called âlean and brilliantâ (New York Times Book Review) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. Heâs 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, Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970.
Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers donât 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, Country Dark 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 weâve been missing for years.
- Perseus Publishing
Chris Offuttâs long-awaited return to fiction after nearly two decades, Country Dark is a fierce noir-inflected novel about a good man pushed by circumstance into crime.