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Kentucky Straight (review)

Kentucky Straight (review) Beth Harrison Appalachian Heritage, Volume 21, Number 2, Spring 1993, pp. 70-71 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1993.0046 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436509/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:00 GMT from JHU Libraries Chris Offiitt. Kentucky Straight. New York: Vintage, 1992. 167 pages. $10.00. Chris Offutt's name seems to be appearing everywhere recentiy, from newspaper reviews to a speech by National Public Radio journalist Noah Adams. I was curious to read Offutt's first collection of short stories, Kentucky Straight, to see what all the attention was about. When the national news media give an Appalachian author such instant acclaim, I, like many others, am skeptical, so I did not approach the stories with an open mind. I almost wanted to find stereotypes. Instead, I found gritty realism and mountain characters who defy easy Hol- lywood "hillbilly" description. Many of Offutt's protagonists do drink, hunt, and fight, and at least one of his stories mentions a moonshiner, but the author's deft character development and spare, evocative imagery bring depth and irony to the scenes he dramatizes. I divide the collection into two cat- egories: the Breece D. J. Pancake variety and the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Kentucky Straight (review)

Harrison, Beth.
Appalachian Review , Volume 21 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Beth Harrison Appalachian Heritage, Volume 21, Number 2, Spring 1993, pp. 70-71 (Review) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1993.0046 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/436509/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:00 GMT from JHU Libraries Chris Offiitt. Kentucky Straight. New York: Vintage, 1992. 167 pages. $10.00. Chris Offutt's name seems to be appearing everywhere recentiy, from newspaper reviews to a speech by National Public Radio journalist Noah Adams. I was curious to read Offutt's first collection of short stories, Kentucky Straight, to see what all the attention was about. When the national news media give an Appalachian author such instant acclaim, I, like many others, am skeptical, so I did not approach the stories with an open mind. I almost wanted to find stereotypes. Instead, I found gritty realism and mountain characters who defy easy Hol- lywood "hillbilly" description. Many of Offutt's protagonists do drink, hunt, and fight, and at least one of his stories mentions a moonshiner, but the author's deft character development and spare, evocative imagery bring depth and irony to the scenes he dramatizes. I divide the collection into two cat- egories: the Breece D. J. Pancake variety and the

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