Chris Offutt delivers another intense Kentucky thriller in Shifty’s Boys. by Wayne Catan & Chapter16.org Shifty’s Boys By Chris Offutt. Grove Press. 272 pages. $27. The epigraph “These hills don’t change” in Chris Offutt’s Shifty’s Boys is lifted from Cesare Pavese’s “South Seas,” a prose poem about Pavese’s native Langhe hills in Italy, highland country where laborers made a paltry sum working in the wineries. Nobody is making an honest fortune in Offutt’s hills of eastern Kentucky, either, and like 2021’s The […]
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