Out of the Woods (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Chris Offutt
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: 1950-1999
- Setting: Kentucky, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, and Wyoming
- Principal Characters: Gerald, Haze Gibson, Ephraim Goins, Beulah Mullins, Tilden, Baker, Ray
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Dogs, Suicide, Murder or homicide, Police, Twentieth century, Mountain life, Guns, Cemeteries, Feuds, Trucks
- Locales: Kentucky, Colorado, Oregon, Wyoming, Idaho
The stories in Chris Offutt’s first book, the well- received 1992 Kentucky Straight, were so firmly situated in the mountains of eastern Kentucky that, in the tradition of William Faulkner, he included a map, with story locations labeled. In this, his second collection, he has moved most of his characters out of the mountains, mainly to the wide-open spaces of the West. However, the eastern Kentucky hill country remains a central force in these stories, for no matter where Offutt’s mountain men go, the hills haunt them.
This is a thin but not an anemic book—less than...
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