Winter’s Bone

A Novel

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By Daniel Woodrell

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On Sale
Jul 11, 2007
Page Count
224 pages
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN-13
9780316066419

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$17.99

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$23.99 CAD

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Daniel Woodrell’s modern classic is an unforgettable tale of desperation and courage that inspired the award-winning film starring Jennifer Lawrence. 

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

  • "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."
    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."
    New York Times Book Review
  • "Daniel Woodrell has produced another stunner, a bleak, beautifully told story about the inescapable bonds of land and blood--fiction at its finest."
    Kansas City Star
  • "Heroines this inspiring don't come along often. When they do, they deserve our attention."
    People
  • "The plot of WINTER'S BONE is uncomplicated, yet it packs a kind of biblical, Old West, Cormac McCarthy wallop--hard and deep."
    Cleveland Plain Dealer
  • "A courageous, audacious, resourceful 16-year-old girl destined to enter the pantheon of literature's heroines."
    Donald Harrington, Atlanta Journal Constitution

Daniel Woodrell

About the Author

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detectivewhen he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet(1955), and The Grifters (1963).

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