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Country Dark by Offutt, Chris is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Country Dark about?

“A smart, rich country noir” from the acclaimed author Kentucky Straight and The Good Brother (Stewart O’Nan, bestselling author of   Henry, Himself ). Chris Offutt is an outstanding literary talent, whose work has been called “lean and brilliant” ( The New York Times Book Review ) and compared by reviewers to Tobias Wolff, Ernest Hemingway, and Raymond Carver. He’s been awarded the Whiting Writers Award for Fiction/Nonfiction and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Fiction Award, among numerous other honors. His first work of fiction in nearly two decades,  Country Dark  is a taut, compelling novel set in rural Kentucky from the Korean War to 1970. Tucker, a young veteran, returns from war to work for a bootlegger. He falls in love and starts a family, and while the Tuckers don’t have much, they have the love of their home and each other. But when his family is threatened, Tucker is pushed into violence, which changes everything. The story of people living off the land and by their wits in a backwoods Kentucky world of shine-runners and laborers whose social codes are every bit as nuanced as the British aristocracy,  Country Dark  is a novel that blends the best of Larry

Who reads Country Dark?

Author

Offutt, Chris

Publisher

Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802129338

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.4 / 5 (855 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14