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Daniel Woodrell is, indeed, as several others have said, the best unknown writer working in America right now. He's pigeon-holed as a crime writer and is credited with creating something he calls "country-noir" for his tales set in his home of the Ozark Mountains in Southern Missouri. But with the richness of his writing, his ear for regional and class-aware dialogue and his sense of humor, he deserves the comparisions people are making to Flannery O'Connor and Faulkner. Winter's Bone, the tale of a young girl searching for her disappeared meth-cooking dad so she can save the family homestead, is brilliantly rendered.
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Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Jack Fischer, January 19, 2012
Daniel Woodrell is, indeed, as several others have said, the best unknown writer working in America right now. He's pigeon-holed as a crime writer and is credited with creating something he calls "country-noir" for his tales set in his home of the Ozark Mountains in Southern Missouri. But with the richness of his writing, his ear for regional and class-aware dialogue and his sense of humor, he deserves the comparisions people are making to Flannery O'Connor and Faulkner. Winter's Bone, the tale of a young girl searching for her disappeared meth-cooking dad so she can save the family homestead, is brilliantly rendered.