Short stories
Paperback (02 Jul 2009)
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Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny town in Southern Ohio.
The youth of Knockemstiff grow up in the malignant shadow of their parents; raised on abuse, alcohol, drugs and cigarettes, they are stunted in every possible way: emotionally, mentally, sometimes physically. They talk a lot about escape but they never so much as cross the county line.
Vintage is a highly respected paperback publisher of contemporary fiction and non-fiction, publishing writers like Philip Roth, Martin Amis and Toni Morrison. There are many Booker and Nobel Prize-winning authors on the Vintage list such as Kingsley Amis, A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Ismail Kadare, Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Anne Enright, Iris Murdoch, Roddy Doyle and Ben Okri, to name a few.
| ISBN: | 9780099520979 |
| Publisher: | Random House |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Pub date: | 02 Jul 2009 |
| Edition: | Short stories |
| DEWEY: | 813.6 |
| DEWEY edition: | 22 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 224 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Height: | 179mm |
| Width: | 197mm |
| Spine width: | 15mm |
