East Coast Don has already written two favorable reviews on
books by Woodrell, recommended by friend-of-MRB Charlie Stella. Woodrell has written
eight novels which are mostly crime books based in the Missouri Ozarks in a
style Woodrell calls “country noir.” I typically don’t like short story
collections, but that what this one is. I’ll echo ECD’s remark that the writing
is powerful, especially the dialogue that captures life in the Ozarks. “Noir”
is the right word since “dark” would hardly capture the nature of his writing.
The characters are disturbing and real. I’m intrigued enough that I’ll soon
dive back into a Woodrell novel, perhaps Winter’s Bone which was already
reviewed by ECD, a 2006 novel which was adapted into a movie in 2010 that got
four Academy Award nominations including best picture, or maybe his second
novel from 1987, Woe to Live On, which was adapted to a film in 1999, Ride with
the Devil.
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