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23%OFFDaniel Woodrell - The Outlaw Album - 9781444735789 - V9781444735789
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The Outlaw Album

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Description for The Outlaw Album Paperback. From the author of WINTER'S BONE, twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by the 'least known major writer in the country today' (Denis Lehane, USA Today) Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 126.

Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction. Desperation - both material and psychological - motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the murder of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behaviour; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry neighbour.

There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories - between spouses, parents and children, siblings ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
125 g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444735789
SKU
V9781444735789
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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50

About Daniel Woodrell
Daniel Woodrell was born in the Missouri Ozarks, where he still lives. He left school and enlisted in the Marines the week he turned seventeen, and received his BA at the age of twenty-seven. He also has an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He is the author of eight novels including Winter's Bone, the film of which was nominated ... Read more

Reviews for The Outlaw Album
His language is complex, poetic, strange and beautiful, conjuring up the misty fields and woods of the Ozarks, and the fiercely independent people who live there.
Josh Lacey, Guardian
wonderful, savage narratives...remarkable even by Woodrell's soaring standards
Irish Times
tales of horror and desperation that'll leave you reeling. In a good way.
Shortlist
'Woodrell ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for The Outlaw Album


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