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Chris Offutt

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Born
in Lexington, Kentucky, The United States
Member Since
July 2014


Average rating: 3.95 · 20,537 ratings · 2,880 reviews · 53 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Killing Hills (Mick Har...

3.86 avg rating — 5,085 ratings — published 2021 — 24 editions
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Country Dark

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Shifty's Boys

4.09 avg rating — 2,406 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions
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My Father, the Pornographer

3.62 avg rating — 2,046 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions
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Kentucky Straight: Stories

4.02 avg rating — 1,739 ratings — published 1992 — 22 editions
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Code of the Hills (Mick Har...

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Out of the Woods

3.99 avg rating — 927 ratings — published 1999 — 18 editions
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The Reluctant Sheriff (The ...

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The Same River Twice: A Memoir

3.96 avg rating — 569 ratings — published 1993 — 16 editions
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The Good Brother

3.83 avg rating — 588 ratings — published 1997 — 24 editions
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“I'd never really found a place in the outside world, but had stayed away too long to fit in at home.”
Chris Offutt, The Same River Twice: A Memoir

“Sometimes I don't think I've done anything to leave my mark in this world. I'm the kind of person the world leaves a mark on.”
Chris Offutt, Out of the Woods

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O’Connor,”
Chris Offutt, Out of the Woods

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