Miracle Boy and Other Stories (Heftet (myke permer))

Pinckney Benedict grew up on his family's dairy farm in the mountains of southern West Virginia. He has published two collections of short fiction and a novel. His stories have appeared in Esquire, Zoetrope: All-Story, the O. Henry Award series, the New Stories from the South series, the Pushcart Prize series, The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, and The Ecco Anthology of Contemporary American Short Fiction.

The story collection "Miracle Boy and Other Stories" contains fourteen works of short fiction written over the last fifteen years -- and published in some of America's top literary magazines and anthologies -- by one of West Virginia's most established and well-recognized writers of short fiction. The stories, all set in the author's native Appalachia, concern themselves with the lives of boys and men, all of them in some manner miraculous: from a boy who loses his feet and gains them again to a hunting dog that learns to talk. Though many of the stories contain supernatural or surreal elements, all are grounded in the realities of life in the Appalachian highlands. These are rough-and-tumble stories about a hardscrabble mountain landscape, and they modulate between love and violence, between beauty and abject terror."

Miracle Boy is a beautiful collection -- immaculately crafted, moving, surprising and sustaining. A book full of dreams of wonder and horror, tenderness, brutality and confusion -- each shot through with a shattered humanity. A remarkable achievement and a testament to the power of the short story form. -- AL Kennedy

Miracle Boy Buckeyes The Butcher Cock Pony Car Joe Messinger is Dreaming Mudman Bridge of Sighs The Beginnings of Sorrow The Angel's Trumpet The World, the Flesh, and the Devil Pig Helmet & the Wall of Life The Secret Nature of the Mechanical Rabbit Mercy Zog-19: A Scientific Romance