Country Dark

by Chris Offutt

Book Overview

Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called "lean and brilliant" ( New York Times Book Review ) 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, Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802127797
• ISBN13: 9780802127792
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Grove Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Grit Lit at its best.

Author Chris Offutt will tear your heart and then mend it. Author had not written a novel in 20 years. THEN he writes the perfect book about a family living in the hills of Appalachia. The father Tucker who returns home from Korea is an character study in what a real man is like. Marrys a young women from the hills. All the characters especially the children with their physical problems will steal your heart. THIS IS NOT A PRETTY NOVEL... Southern grit lit at its best. I guarentee you a good read.