Dogs of God - Hardcover

Benedict, Pinckney

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385420226 ISBN 13: 9780385420228

Publisher: Nan A. Talese, 1993

Synopsis

Full of the intensity and vibrance of Appalachian speech, a tale set in rural West Virginia vividly captures the violence of a backwoodsman and drug lord named Tannhauser and the innocence of a young man named Goody. A first novel. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Evoking the raw power of Deliverance, a superb novel of innocence and violence in rural Appalachia, by a writer who "reads like a cross between Barry Hannah and Cormac McCarthy."--The Chicago Tribune

About the Author:

Pinckney Benedict was born in 1964. He grew up and continues to live on his family’s dairy farm, not far north of Lewisburg, West Virginia. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, where he studied creative writing with Joyce Carol Oates, and a master’s degree from the creative writing program of the University of Iowa. His first collection of short stories, Town Smokes, was published in 1987 to wide acclaim; included in that collection was “The Sutton Pie Safe,” for which Mr. Benedict received the Nelson Algren Award, given by the Chicago Tribune. He has also received a James Michener Fellowship from the Writers’ Workshop.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nan A. Talese
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0385420226
• ISBN 13: 9780385420228
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 354