- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: Gallery; Auflage: Reprint (1. August 1998)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0671025031
- ISBN-13: 978-0671025038
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,6 x 13,2 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (6 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 2.409.729 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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" It's a strange, powerful bloodline poetry, I guess, but there's something so potent to us Redmonds about bustin' laws together, as a family." You don't hear much from white-trash philosophers in contemporary fiction, but Woodrell is doing his best to change that. His last novel, The Ones You Do (1992), gave us the irrepressible John X. Shade, and this time he goes one better with Doyle Redmond, the maverick college boy from an Ozark family of dirt farmers and convicts. Doyle returns to his roots with gusto when he agrees to help his infamous brother Smoke (think Robert Mitchum in Thunder Road) with the season's marijuana harvest. A nice plan, to be sure, except for the generations-old blood feud between the Redmonds and the Dollys. It all goes bad, of course, but in an exquisitely ironic way. Dirt farmers, Woodrell tells us, "have no quit in them." Neither do novelists determined to show a 1990s audience the special mix of poetry, stubbornness, humanity, and just-plain meanness in the souls of a few Ozark hill folk. Bill Ott
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From Library Journal
A semidark comic novel set in the Missouri Ozarks, this is the amusing tale of tough-guy midlist novelist Doyle Redmond's transformation into the writer he only dreamed of being. Escaping from trendy California in his estranged wife's Volvo, Doyle reconnects with his roughneck heritage: gun-crazy grandpa and older brother, big-breasted gals, marijuana farms, and a 50-year-old blood feud with the infamous Dolly clan. Reader interest is held throughout by Doyle's absurd descent into his dream self. With this fast-paced yarn's final page, Doyle, now a murderer en route to prison, takes mock glory in his newly earned media renown and the knowledge that his out-of-print crime novels will now be reprinted. All told, this is a good-natured, good-hearted tale. By the author of the critically praised novel The Ones You Do (LJ 3/15/92), this present effort is highly recommended for larger fiction collections.
-?James B. Hemesath, Adams State Coll. Lib., Alamosa, Col.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
-?James B. Hemesath, Adams State Coll. Lib., Alamosa, Col.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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When our book club chose this book as part of its new author day, I thought "what kind of trash is this." But like a good shot of moonshine, it was revolting enough to leave its mark and tasty enough to make me want more. HOnestly, why hasn't this guy gotten his due? There is more slick writing, quirky characters and raunchy adventure i nthis book then many books twice its length. And with the lead character a sort of hillbilly writer/philosopher (that is not a contradiction in terms!) one has a narrator throughout the book who never fails to make you laugh. THe book centers around the adventures of Redmond Doyle, a hack writer who returns home to the Ozarks from a more "high falutin" environment, only to find out that you cannot escape your past or your roots. As he gets pulled into the inevitable feuds and violence that is part of Ozark lore, he wonders why he ever left in the first place.With plenty of fights, sex, hillbilly weirdness and the ramblings of the main character, the book is liike a canoe ride down the river in Deliverance. It will make you squeal like a pig!
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Why do truly creative writers like Woodrell get overshadowed by the mass market pap and hack writers? Woodrell tells great stories with original spins on what some might call stock pulp fiction characters in neat, compact books that his best selling contemporaries attempt to tell with less entertaining and often outright dull results and they do so in 300, 400+ pages! I read this book based on its subtitle and the slick jacket blurb. Holt knows to publish and package a good crime novel. I'm starting on Woodrell's earlier stuff now. He and John Straley are the two writers who deserve a lot more attention and a lot more readers.
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As a fellow Hillbilly from Woodrell's neck of the woods, I can attest to the accuracy of everything the man says. Don't fool yourself, this may be listed as fiction, but I can take you to the exact spot...or a close enough facsimile. Great writing, and the best grasp on 'payback' I've seen since I dumped this feller off the bridge a few years ago. I'm proud to see another hillbilly made it out of the woods, proud to see he isn't above coming back. Good work, Dan. Might see you on the Big Piney, we'll kill us some lunch.
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Great fun
I loved this book. I've never read anything like it...it makes plain country folk cool. I'm glad I found another writer to add to my list of personal favorites.
Am 12. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
it was an excellent book filled with bumpkin family values
this is an excellent book in all aspects. Woodrell is truely one of this century's best. The exciting style along with a gripping tale give you everything you could ask for.
Am 18. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
This is the way an author is supposed to write!
Never heard of Daniel Woodrell til I pulled this from the pile of good reads my family members share with each other. Couldn't put it down. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. März 1999 veröffentlicht
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