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Chris Offutt

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Chris Offutt grew up in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky and has held more than fifty part-time jobs. For his first three books he received numerous awards and honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Whiting Award. He currently lives in Iowa City, where he is a visiting visa mer professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. visa färre

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McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales (2002) — Bidragsgivare — 1,470 exemplar
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 477 exemplar
The Best American Short Stories 1994 (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 239 exemplar
Granta 54: Best of Young American Novelists (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 236 exemplar
Modern American Memoirs (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 189 exemplar
Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 175 exemplar
The Best American Essays 2014 (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 166 exemplar
The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 124 exemplar
Granta 110: Sex (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 124 exemplar
Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers! Writers on Comics (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 106 exemplar
The Best American Food Writing 2018 (2018) — Bidragsgivare — 87 exemplar
The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, Volume 3 (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 78 exemplar
Mississippi Noir (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
New Stories from the South 2000: The Year's Best (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 53 exemplar
Bestial Noise: The Tin House Fiction Reader (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 50 exemplar
The Secret Society of Demolition Writers (2005) — Bidragsgivare — 48 exemplar
New Stories from the South 2004: The Year's Best (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 33 exemplar
New Stories from the South 2003: The Year's Best (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
The New Great American Writers' Cookbook (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
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Surreal South (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 12 exemplar

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Another great book by this author. This is a good series with great characters, hope the author will continue it.
 
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zmagic69 | 1 annan recension | Feb 25, 2024 |
After reading a full slate of Appalachian books chock full of dour, joyless characters, I found Chris Offutt's writing delightful. The characters weren't necessarily less dour or joyless than characters in other books, but Offutt seems to recall that, once in a while, we all need to laugh.
 
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Unkletom | 10 andra recensioner | Dec 29, 2023 |
Code of the Hills by Chris Offutt
Mick Hardin #3

Stepping back into the Kentucky hill country with Mick, two years after he left, sees him drawn away from his retirement plans to once again deal with local crimes and solve murders. Great addition to the series!

What I liked:
* Mick Hardin: * retired Army CID officer, born and bred in the hills the story is set in, knows the culture, has an interesting moral compass, protective, puzzle solver, intelligent, lethal, someone I would want on my side, a bit of a loner, finds peace in the woods, a good man
* Linda Hardin: town sheriff, Mick’s sister, intelligent, professional, a bit of a loner, good leader, injured on the job in this book, wondering what her storyline will look like in the future
* Sandra: police dispatcher, divorced, seems to see Mick for who and what he is, might still be a potential love interest for Mick in the future
* Raymond: ex-marine, in relationship with JC, helps with JC’s taco truck business, an equal to Mick in many ways though more capable of maintaining a relationship
* Johnny Boy: deputy sheriff, map collector, talkative, wouldn’t mind being in a relationship, methodical, intelligent, has much to ponder
* How the community values and expectations play such a big part in the stories in this series
* The descriptions of the area and how they played a part in the story
* Police procedural aspects of the story, where they led, and how the various cases were tied up and dealt with by the end of the book
* Wondering what favors will be called in by Flowers and Shorty that Mick will one day need to repay
* Thinking about what will happen next in the series

What I didn’t like:
* Who and what I was meant not to like
* The idea of revenge and how family feuds never actually end if one person is always needing to have their death avenged

Did I enjoy this book? Yes
Would I read more in this series? Definitely

Thank you to NetGalley and Grove Press for the ARC – This is my honest review.

4-5 Stars
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½
 
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CathyGeha | 1 annan recension | Jun 11, 2023 |
After reading Chris Offutt's first Mick Hardin book, The Killing Hills, I looked forward to this second book, Shifty's Boys. Offutt has a way with language, setting, and characterization that I find impossible to resist.

Offutt's keen photographer's eye gives readers descriptive "snapshot" phrases that put them right into the Kentucky hills along with Mick Hardin and the rest of the characters. Readers see the flash of cardinals' wings and hear the breeze through the leaves of the trees. In fact, you could say that the setting is just as much a character in Shifty's Boys as the two-legged ones. The dialogue, too, makes me feel right at home, and comments such as "Them Ryans are so stuck up they'd drown in a hard rain" make me smile and think of my grandparents.

There's a bit of a Jack Reacher feeling to this book, as there was in The Killing Hills, and the plot often takes a backseat to the setting and the characters, but with the story's steady pace, I didn't mind a bit.

I felt at home with the characters. After all, how can I turn my nose up at Mick who's let Roscoe the "house snake" live under his cabin's porch for ten years when I spent a summer sharing a poolside umbrella with a black widow spider? (Mick would probably think I was the strange one.) There are characters to love in Shifty's Boys. For example, Mick's sister, Linda, the sheriff who's up for reelection. She's known (and liked and respected) in the area for arresting her own brother. There's Jacky Turner, a genuine Mr. Fix-It with a penchant for inventing things "for the good of mankind." I also liked Albin the cab driver and was sorry to see him disappear once Mick's truck was repaired.

I even found a place that I wish I could visit: the "Coffee Tree, a bookstore that sold sandwiches and yarn." I figure my patronage alone would keep that place open. Chris Offutt's Mick Hardin books are centered around some of the real-life ugliness in a hard-hit part of Kentucky, but they're not just about the bad. Through reading his stories, readers also see the natural beauty of the landscape and the humor, heart, and resourcefulness of its people. Book three, here I come.
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cathyskye | 4 andra recensioner | May 20, 2023 |

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