The Same River Twice: A Memoir
feb. 2016 · Simon and Schuster
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From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer, Same River Twice is the second volume from an American literary star. “If you haven't read Chris Offutt, you've missed an accomplished and compelling writer” (Chicago Tribune).
At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home in the Kentucky Appalachians and thumbed his way north—into a series of odd jobs and even stranger encounters with his fellow Americans.
Fifteen years later, Offutt finds himself in a place he never thought he’d be: settled down with a pregnant wife.
Writing from the banks of the Iowa River, where he came to rest, he intersperses the story of his youthful journeys with that of his journey to fatherhood in a memoir that is uniquely candid, occasionally brutal, and often wonderfully funny. As he reckons with the comforts and terrors of maturity, Offutt finally discovers what is best in life and in himself.
At the age of nineteen, Chris Offutt had already been rejected by the army, the Peace Corps, the park rangers, and the police. So he left his home in the Kentucky Appalachians and thumbed his way north—into a series of odd jobs and even stranger encounters with his fellow Americans.
Fifteen years later, Offutt finds himself in a place he never thought he’d be: settled down with a pregnant wife.
Writing from the banks of the Iowa River, where he came to rest, he intersperses the story of his youthful journeys with that of his journey to fatherhood in a memoir that is uniquely candid, occasionally brutal, and often wonderfully funny. As he reckons with the comforts and terrors of maturity, Offutt finally discovers what is best in life and in himself.
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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.
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.
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