Pattern of a Man & Other Stories - Softcover

Still, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0917788753 ISBN 13: 9780917788758

Publisher: Gnomon Press, 2001

Synopsis

Fiction. First published in 1976, with a 2001 afterword by Wendell Berry. James Still was born on Double Creek in Alabama, one of ten children. For most of his life he lived in a log house at the forks of Troublesome and Wolfpen creeks in Knott County, Kentucky. The unique native dialect of the Kentucky mountains informs the language of all his stories. "Not many writers have been able to concentrate so much power into a few pages. When you look up from `The Nest' or `The Scrape,' you find the room filled with afterimages...Because, perhaps, of its artistic integrity this body of work never exploits or condescends to its subject, a region that has been condescended to and exploited almost by convention"--Wendell Berry.

About this title

About the Author:

Author of well-known novel River of Earth. , recipient of two Guggenheim Fellowships, and many awards.

Review:

I consider James Still one of our best writers. -- — Harriette Simpson Arnow

About this edition

• Publisher: Gnomon Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0917788753
• ISBN 13: 9780917788758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144