San Francisco Chronicle Here is a collection of stories that are perhaps unique in our time.Wry and raw and poignant, these extraordinary stories are gritty with the yeast of folks caught in the act of being only too human. Oregonian Startling, bleak, uncompromising, and funny.This is as raw as American fiction gets. They crept up on me, leaving me breathless and shaken. Wall Street Journal These are absorbing stories that linger and haunt. The New York Times Book Review could be the next important voice in American fiction.
Chuck Palahniuk Pollocks voice is fresh and full-throated.His steely, serrated prose.calls to mind Harry Crews. Los Angeles Times More engaging than any new fiction in years. Review Quotes Knockemstiff is a powerful, remarkable, exceptional book. Donald Ray Pollock presents his characters and the sordid goings-on with a stern intelligence, a bracing absence of value judgments, and a refreshingly dark sense of bottom-dog humor. A psychotic rural recluse comes upon two siblings committing incest and feels compelled to take action. A father pumps his son full of steroids so he can vicariously relive his days as a perpetual runner-up body builder. Spanning a period from the mid-sixties to the late nineties, the linked stories that comprise Knockemstiff feature a cast of recurring characters who are irresistibly, undeniably real.
Knockemstiff is a genuine entry into the literature of place. Chuck Palahniuk An unforgettable work of fiction that peers into the soul of a tough Midwestern American town to reveal the sad, stunted but resilient lives of its residents. Book Synopsis More engaging than any new fiction in years. Pollock grabs by the throat and doesnt let go-Kirkus. About the Book A debut collection of terrifying, darkly funny stories concerning the drug-addled, beaten-down inhabitants of a southern Ohio holler called Knockemstiff.
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