![]() ![]() seem straight out of John Boorman's film Deliverance. The majority of the inhabitants of Knockemstiff, Ohio. ![]() It may be as ragged as junkies' jeans, but this has the potential to be a whiskey-stained classic * Time Out * ![]() ![]() Pollock treats readers to inventive, melodic and captivating storytelling. Like Denis Johnson, Andre Dubus and Raymond Carver before him, Pollock populates his stories with low-lives and junkies, dreamers and drunks.He is a master of voice and phrasing, and there are some knockout, pitch-perfect sentences. The book is l aced with dry, black humour * New Statesman * His economical prose excels in its lurid (and often scatological) detail, and his physical descriptions are superb. Pollock's writing is lean and unflinching. A fiendishly enjoyable collection * Daily Telegraph * Donald Ray Pollock presents his characters and the sordid goings-on with a stern intelligence, a bracing absence of value judgments, and a refreshingly dark sense of bottom-dog humor. To get an idea of Donald Ray Pollock's astonishing new book, one could try to imagine a drunken punch-up between a redneck Hemingway and an amphetamine-fuelled Raymond Carver. A psychotic rural recluse comes upon two siblings committing incest and feels compelled to take action. ![]()
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