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Chris Offutt

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


Average rating: 3.9 · 23,868 ratings · 3,169 reviews · 44 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Killing Hills (Mick Har...

3.86 avg rating — 5,252 ratings — published 2021
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Country Dark

4.09 avg rating — 3,047 ratings — published 2018 — 20 editions
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Shifty’s Boys (Mick Hardin #2)

4.08 avg rating — 2,487 ratings — published 2022 — 24 editions
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My Father, the Pornographer

3.62 avg rating — 2,059 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions
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Kentucky Straight: Stories

4.02 avg rating — 1,759 ratings — published 1992 — 22 editions
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Code of the Hills (Mick Har...

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,478 ratings — published 2023 — 20 editions
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The Reluctant Sheriff (The ...

4.06 avg rating — 1,050 ratings11 editions
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Out of the Woods

3.99 avg rating — 939 ratings — published 1999 — 19 editions
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The Good Brother

3.84 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions
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The Same River Twice: A Memoir

3.96 avg rating — 577 ratings — published 1993 — 17 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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