The Good Brother: A Novel

Chris Offutt

Feb. 2016 · Verkoop deur Simon and Schuster

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From the critically acclaimed author of the collection Kentucky Straight and memoir My Father the Pornographer, The Good Brother is the finely crafted debut novel from a talent the New York Times calls “a fierce writer”.

Virgil Caudill has never gone looking for trouble, but this time he's got no choice—his hell-raising brother Boyd has been murdered. Everyone knows who did it, and in the hills of Kentucky, tradition won’t let a murder go unavenged. No matter which way he chooses, Virgil will lose.

The Good Brother is the story of a man’s struggle to find his real self in the wake of an impossible choice. Traversing the American landscape from the hollows of Eastern Kentucky to the plains of Montana, Offutt explores the hunger for belonging that drives our most passionate beliefs, and in the process shows himself to be one of our most powerful storytellers.

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Chris Offutt grew up in Haldeman, Kentucky, a former mining town of two-hundred people in the Daniel Boone National Forest. He is the author of two memoirs: The Same River Twice and No Heroes; two collections of short stories: Kentucky Straight and Out of the Woods; and one novel, The Good Brother. He has published over eighty stories and essays, including appearances in The New York Times, Esquire, GQ, Playboy, and on National Public Radio. His work is in many textbooks and anthologies such as Best American Short Stories and Best American Essays.
His work received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the NEA, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The international magazine Granta included him in its list of the “Top 20 Young American Writers.” He wrote and produced screenplays for True Blood, Weeds, and Treme, and TV pilots for Fox, Lions Gate, and CBS. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, he lives in rural Lafayette County near Oxford, Mississippi.