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A New York Times Notable Book.
"I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. With The Death of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece?spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. It broke my heart."?Dennis Lehane, best-selling author of Mystic River
"Put [The Death of Sweet Mister] on the shelf alongside Faulkner, Jim Thompson, and Cormac McCarthy. With this one, Mr. Woodrell has earned himself a piece of immortality."?George Pelecanos, best-selling author of The Way Home
"The Death of Sweet Mister holds its own against anything in the canon of American literature. This is a book I'd place alongside Faulkner's The Reivers or Hemingway's 'Big-Two-Hearted River.'"?Kaye Gibbons, best-selling author of Ellen Foster
"The Death of Sweet Mister is a strong contender for my all-time favorite novel, crime or otherwise."?Allan Guthrie, Edgar Award?nominated author of Slammer
"Fiery, poetic, hair-raising."?Los Angeles Times
"Compelling. . . . Woodrell's descriptions seem real and alive and linger long after reading."?The Boston Globe
"Woodrell's Ozarks are cut as cleanly as Flannery O'Connor's Georgia and pocked with characters just as volatile and proud and unpredictable."?Chicago Tribune
Set in the Missouri hill country, The Death of Sweet Mister presents one eventful summer in the life of Shug, a friendless, overweight thirteen-year-old living with his mother Glenda in the caretaker's cottage at the local cemetery.
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Review:
"A fiery, poetic, hair-raising novel."-- "Los Angeles" " Times"
"A fiery, poetic, hair-raising novel." "Bret Israel, "Los Angeles"" Times"""
"[Woodrell] has achieved near mastery of style: language, plot, characterization and theme mesh with a seamless power."--Michael Anderson, New York Times Book Review
"A fiery, poetic, hair-raising novel."--Bret Israel, Los Angeles Times
"The plot, tawdry in the abstract, is transformed by Woodrell's gallows humour and his rendering of Shug's voice, part Huck Finn, part Holden Caulfield."--Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement (U.K.)
"A dark, disturbing beauty of a story . . . Woodrell throws down sentences that will leave you amazed."--Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain
About the Author:
"A fiery, poetic, hair-raising novel." "Bret Israel, "Los Angeles"" Times"""
"[Woodrell] has achieved near mastery of style: language, plot, characterization and theme mesh with a seamless power."--Michael Anderson, New York Times Book Review
"A fiery, poetic, hair-raising novel."--Bret Israel, Los Angeles Times
"The plot, tawdry in the abstract, is transformed by Woodrell's gallows humour and his rendering of Shug's voice, part Huck Finn, part Holden Caulfield."--Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement (U.K.)
"A dark, disturbing beauty of a story . . . Woodrell throws down sentences that will leave you amazed."--Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain
Daniel Woodrell lives in the Missouri Ozarks near the Arkansas line. His five most recent novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and TOMATO RED won the PEN West Award for the Novel. Two novels have been adapted as major motion pictures: WOE TO LIVE ON(filmed in 1999 by Ang Lee as RIDE WITH THE DEVIL, starring Tobey Maguire & Skeet Ulrich) and WINTER'S BONE(2010; accepted to the U.S. Dramatic Competition category at Sundance). He is at work on his next novel, due from Little, Brown in 2011.
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- PublisherBusted Flush Pr
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1935415085
- ISBN 13 9781935415084
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages220
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