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Amid the harsh landscape of the Ozark Hills, sixteen-year-old Ree is taking care of her mother and two brothers. Her father has put their house up as bail and if he doesn't show up at court it'll be sold from under them. To save her family she nee...

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Now available in one volume--The Bayou Trilogy, from the author of "Winter's Bone," featuring "Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing," and "The Ones You Do."

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Amid the harsh landscape of the Ozark Hills, sixteen-year-old Ree is taking care of her mother and two brothers. Her father has put their house up as bail and if he doesn't show up at court it'll be sold from under them. To save her family she nee...

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In 1861, sixteen-year-old Jake joins the secessionist group known as the First Kansas Irregulars, and partakes in brutality excused in the name of retribution.

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When Ree Dollys father skips bail, the 16-year-old knows if he doesn't show up, her family will lose their home. Her goal had been to leave her life of poverty and join the Army, but first she must find her father, teach her little brothers to fen...

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When Red Baker, a Larmel steel worker in Baltimore, Maryland, gets laid off from his job he goes crazy: boozing, attempted philandering, running away from his future. Filled with unforgettable characters from Red's angry but loyal wife, Wanda; his...

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Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction. Desperation - both material and psychological - motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the murder of ...

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In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who cursed the waltzing couples for their sins? Or could it just have been a colossal accident? Alma...

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

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In 1929, an explosion in a Missouri dance hall killed forty-two people. Who was to blame? Mobsters from St Louis? Embittered gypsies? The preacher who cursed the waltzing couples for their sins? Or could it just have been a colossal accident?Alma ...

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Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction. Desperation - both material and psychological - motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the murder of ...

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Die sechzehnjährige Ree wohnt allein mit ihren zwei jüngeren Geschwistern und ihrer psychisch kranken Mutter im hinterwäldlerischen Ozarkgebirge im Süden von Missouri. Es ist ihre Aufgabe, sich um die Geschwister und ihre Mutter zu sorgen. Doch pl...

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Jessup Dolly taucht unter, als der Winter kommt. Seiner Familie, die in bitterarmen Verhÿltnissen im Hinterland von Missouri lebt, fehlt es an allem. Sie haben kaum etwas zu essen und nicht einmal genug Feuerholz, um das Haus warm zu halten. Aufo...

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Die Geschichte vergisst das Ungesühnte nicht. Missouri, Sommer 1929. In einer Kleinstadt sterben 42 Menschen, als es eines Nachts bei einer Tanzveranstaltung zu einer gewaltigen Explosion kommt. Es gibt viele Gerüchte über die Tragödie, doch d...

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Sammy Barlach ist ein Verlierer, der sich mehr schlecht als recht durchs Leben schlägt. Eigentlich will er nur irgendwo dazugehören - und stolpert so zielsicher ins Verderben. Bei einem Einbruch in eine Villa trifft er auf zwei andere, e...

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1861, im Grenzland zwischen Missouri und Kansas. Der junge Jake Roedel hat sich einer Gruppe von Freischÿrlern angeschlossen, die aufseiten der Konföderierten kÿmpfen und im Land Angst und Schrecken verbreiten. Immer wieder planen sie ÿberfÿl...

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Even the darkest journey must come to an end...____________'Haunting, intoxicating' Ali Land, author of Good Me, Bad Me'Deeply affecting' Chris Whitaker, author of All the Wicked Girls____________Three years ago, Lelle's daughter went missing in a...

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