Winter’s Bone

A Novel

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By Daniel Woodrell

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Ree Dolly’s father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn’t show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree discovers unforeseen depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost.

“The lineage from Faulkner to Woodrell runs as deep and true as an Ozark stream in this book…his most profound and haunting yet.” — Los Angeles Times Book Review

  • "Sometimes brutal, sometimes mordantly
    funny, sometimes surprisingly sweet . . .I
    just didn't want WINTER'S BONE to
    end."
    Harper Barnes, St. Louis Post Dispatch
  • "Woodrell's Old Testament prose and blunt
    vision have a chilly timelessness that
    suggests this novel will speak to readers as
    long as there are readers."
    David Bowman, New York Times Book Review
  • "Heroines this inspiring don't come along
    often. When they do, they deserve our
    attention."
    Vick Boughton, People
  • "The plot of WINTER'S BONE is
    uncomplicated, yet it packs a kind of
    biblical, Old West, Cormac McCarthy
    wallop--hard and deep."
    Michael Heaton, Cleveland Plain Dealer
  • "A courageous, audacious, resourceful 16-
    year-old girl destined to enter the pantheon
    of literature's heroines."
    Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal Constitution

On Sale
Jun 1, 2010
Page Count
224 pages
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN-13
9780316131612

Daniel Woodrell

About the Author

Five of Daniel Woodrell‘s published novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Tomato Red won the PEN West Award for the Novel in 1999. Woodrell lives in the Ozarks near the Arkansas line with his wife, Katie Estill.

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