Full name: Out of the Woods: Stories

Author: Chris Offutt Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780684853765 0684853760

Seven years ago, Chris Offutt made his literary debut with Kentucky Straight, a fiercely original collection that earned him not only critical praise but many prestigious awards. The eight new stories in Out of the Woods mark Offutt's return to the form in which he first displayed his astonishing talent. Offutt, who "draws landscape and constructs dialogue with the eyes and ears of a native son" (The Miami Herald), is on strong home turf here, capturing those who have left the Kentucky hills and long to return. These are stories of gravediggers and drifters, gamblers and truck drivers a long way from home, tales that are so full of hard edges they can't help but tell some hard truths. Similar books: The Fun Parts by Sam Lipsyte Barking Man by Madison Smartt Bell The Dog of the Marriage by Amy Hempel Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower Tumble Home by Amy Hempel Never Trust A Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson The Secret Lives of People in Love by Simon Van Booy Airships by Barry Hannah In the Bedroom by Andre Dubus Escapes by Joy Williams Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson Jigs & Reels by Joanne Harris The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff Nine Inches by Tom Perrotta A Better Angel by Chris Adrian Kentucky Straight by Chris Offutt The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez