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Winner of the Whiting Writers' Award (2003)
Winner of the Bakeless Literary Publication Prize for Fiction (2000)

Departing from Appalachia's 150-year-old literary legacy of formula and caricature, West Virginia native Ann Pancake uses the texture of language, an intense attention to place, and complexity of characterization to recreate the region -- its tragic history and fragile culture, the interior landscapes of its people, and their deep rootedness in a threatened land. Her characters, already marginalized economically and socially, confront what many perceive as an...

The stories in this collection nearly all take place in and around the mountain hollows of West Virginia: a world of cock-fighting, coal-mining, deer-stalking, sex, depression, drinking and death. "It would be easy to allow his one collection of stories to be buried under the landslide of books published every year. But it's worth doing a little excavating to dig it up. The past few years have seen late-in-the-day and posthumous revivals of interest in writers such...John Williams. Get out your pickaxes". (New Yorker).

This novel is about our nation, during perhaps its most critical time in history. Our nation's leaders were at odds --- northern leaders and southern leaders failed to reconcile their differences over slavery and other issues.

Young Robbie Holcomb, reared in abolitionist traditions, ventures south to further his education. He finds friendships and love as well as minor hatred and biogtry. Evenso, he finds more good than bad in his southern life experience. Subsequently, when civil war comes, Robbie finds himself in the Confederate army.

The story is entertwined between fact and...

Pokryta węglowym pyłem Wirginia Zachodnia w opowiadaniach Pancake’a to kraina bogów porażki. Ubodzy górnicy, sfrustrowani farmerzy, prawdziwi i niedoszli mordercy, marzyciele i szaleńcy. Gospodarstwa, kopalnie, sale barowe i podrzędne hotele. A wokół oposy, lisy, węże i łanie – uważnie przyglądająca się człowiekowi przyroda. To miejsce, gdzie prowincjonalny krajobraz łączy się z równie prowincjonalnym myśleniem; gdzie łatwiej sobie odgryźć język, niż wyjawić skrywane uczucia. Przy tych bohaterach, ludziach pełnych gniewu i szukających wybawienia, autor trwa...

This novel is about our nation, during perhaps its most critical time in history. Our nation's leaders were at odds --- northern leaders and southern leaders failed to reconcile their differences over slavery and other issues.

Young Robbie Holcomb, reared in abolitionist traditions, ventures south to further his education. He finds friendships and love as well as minor hatred and biogtry. Evenso, he finds more good than bad in his southern life experience. Subsequently, when civil war comes, Robbie finds himself in the Confederate army.

The story is entertwined between fact and...

Breece D'J Pancake cut short a promising career when he took his own life at the age twenty-six. Published posthumously, this is a collection of stories that depict the world of Pancake's native rural West Virginia.

"A revisionist view of the Revolution's most crucial year... it explodes many of the myths surrounding Burgoyne's Canadian expedition and Howe's Pennsylvania campaign. There is a wealth of fascinating detail in this book, including information on arms and supplies, rations for women camp followers, and even the numbers of carts (30-odd) carrying Burgoyne's luggage."

--History Book Club Newsletter

An exciting and accurate portrayal of the military action in the southern colonies that led to a new American nation.

A companion to Pancake's study of the northern campaign, 1777: The Year of the Hangman, this volume deals with the American Revolution in the Carolinas. Together, the two books constitute a complete history of the Revolutionary War.

Pancake tells a gripping story of the southern campaign, the scene of a grim and deadly guerilla war. In the savage internecine struggle, Americans fought Americans with a fierceness that appalled even a...