Shug Akins is a lonely, overweight thirteen-year-old boy. His mother, Glenda, is the one person who loves him--she calls him Sweet Mister and attempts to boost his confidence and give him hope for his future. Shuggie's purported fathe...

A hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels from an author about whom New York magazine has written, "What people say about Cormac McCarthy ... goes double for [Woodrell]. Possibly more." In the parish of St...

The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone (2006) tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations.Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent family in We...

Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (emAssociated Press/em) American master./Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wr...

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...

em"/emMy imagination is always skulking about in a wrong place." And now Doyle Redmond, thirty-five-year-old nowhere writer, has crossed the line between imagination and real live trouble. On the lam in his soon-to-be ex-wif...

"Woodrell does for the Ozarks what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles or Elmore Leonard does for Florida."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewDaniel Woodrell has been called "stone brilliant" (James Ellroy); an aut...

Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, WOE TO LIVE ON explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go...