7 rows · · “Country Dark is a taut, well-constructed novel easily consumed in one sitting.”—Shelf Awareness Brand: Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Country Dark is a taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don't 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. Country Dark. by Chris Offutt. Chris Offutt’s 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. Paperback Hardcover E-Book Paperback. Paperback.
But self-styled country noir-ist Jake Hinkson identifies Winter's Bone as the standard-bearer for his own foray into that bleak generic territory, and the label is a convenient point of reference for appreciating the literary stakes in both Hinkson's novel Dry County () and Chris Offutt's Country Dark (). Offutt's novel is one. Country Dark may read like a mythical epic, but its characters feel wholly real."—Cedar Rapids Gazette "[Chris Offutt] writes so well and knows the people and places he writes about [and] he has the ability to enter the minds of his characters. Country Dark is a heart-wrenching story of a man who is caught between violence and his. item 7 Country Dark by Chris Offutt (, Hardcover) 7 -Country Dark by Chris Offutt (, Hardcover) $ Free shipping. See all - All listings for this product. No ratings or reviews yet. No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review.
"Chris Offutt's work about mountain life earns high praise from other writers, and Country Dark, his return to fiction, is entirely welcome and a pleasure all www.doorway.ru writes so well, with such deep knowledge of the language and people, that Country Dark is likely to be read straight through, no resting places."--Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone and The Maid's Version. The title hints at the tone, for this is indeed a Southern gothic story, set in Kentucky and focused on a man who would do anything to keep his family together. Offutt's (My Father, the Pornographer, , etc.) first fiction in almost two decades opens in , when Tucker is coming back from the Korean War with 11 medals—and he’s not even On the way home through rural Kentucky he stops a man from raping Rhonda, a year-old girl, and he finds the potential rapist is not only the. “Country Dark is a taut, well-constructed novel easily consumed in one sitting.”—Shelf Awareness.
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