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Daniel Woodrell The Maid's Version (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Maid's Version : a Novel
- Publication Name
- The Maid's Version
- Title
- The Maid's Version
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0316205885
- EAN
- 9780316205887
- ISBN
- 9780316205887
- Publisher
- Little Brown & Company
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Family Life, Crime, Literary, Historical
- Release Year
- 2014
- Release Date
- 09/09/2014
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 6.4 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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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 West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in 1929, her scandalous, beloved younger sister is one of the 42 killed in an explosion at the local dance hall. Who is to blame? Mobsters from St. Louis? The embittered local gypsies? The preacher who railed against the loose morals of the waltzing couples? Or could it have been a colossal accident? Alma thinks she knows the answer--and that its roots lie in a dangerous love affair. Her dogged pursuit of justice makes her an outcast and causes a long-standing rift with her own son. By telling her story to her grandson, Alma finally gains some solace--and peace for her sister. He is advised to "Tell it. Go on and tell it"--tell the story of his family's struggles, suspicions, secrets, and triumphs.
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Publisher
Little Brown & Company
ISBN-10
0316205885
ISBN-13
9780316205887
eBay Product ID (ePID)
180443478
Product Key Features
Book Title
Maid's Version : a Novel
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Family Life, Crime, Literary, Historical
Publication Year
2014
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
6.4 Oz
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"Woodrell captures the run-down, put-upon underbelly of America better than anyone, because he knows it better than anyone."-- Benjamin Percy, Esquire.com, " The Maid's Version is one more resplendent trophy on the shelf of an American master."-- William Giraldi, The Daily Beast, "Further proof, as if we needed it, that Woodrell is a writer to cherish."-- Adam Woog, Seattle Times, " The Maid's Version is stunning. Daniel Woodrell writes flowing, cataclysmic prose with the irresistible aura of fate about it."--Sam Shepard, " The Maid's Version is one more resplendent trophy on the shelf of an American master."--William Giraldi, The Daily Beast, "I'd gladly sign a petition to see Mr. Woodrell included on any roll call of America's finest living writers."--Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal, "You might have seen Jennifer Lawrence's breakout role in Winter's Bone , but did you know the movie is based on a novel by the audaciously talented Woodrell? The author of nine widely-praised novels is sometimes described as a master of Ozark noir, but his gripping narratives and pitch-perfect language transcend genre."-- Reader's Digest, "23 Contemporary Writers You Should Have Read by Now", "Woodrell's language echoes melodically with the vernacular of the Ozarks, traces of folk song, the cadences of the Bible. Sometimes he offers, seemingly with little effort, as if from a bottomless repository, pithy similes. This of Alma: "grief has chomped on her like wolves do a calf". At other times, sentences leisurely unspool: "The Missouri river floated sixty yards from the street, and there was a small crotchety tavern on the corner." [Woodrell] belongs within a great, predominantly male tradition of American writing that stretches back to Mark Twain and runs on through Willa Cather, William Faulkner, James Dickey, Larry McMurtry to Cormac McCarthy. From the vantage of their willed exile they have produced, down the generations, some of their country's finest fiction and poetry."-- Peter Pierce, the Australian, " The Maid's Version is able to tell a community's history in stunning second-, third-, and even fourth-hand recollection."-- Mesha Maren, LA Review of Books, "In fewer than 200 pages, but with a richness of theme and character worthy of the weightiest Victorian novel, Woodrell brings West Table to life in the varied experiences of its sons and daughters. "-- Wendy Smith, Washington Post, " The Maid's Version is stunning. Daniel Woodrell writes flowing, cataclysmic prose with the irresistible aura of fate about it."-- Sam Shepard, "In fewer than 200 pages, but with a richness of theme and character worthy of the weightiest Victorian novel, Woodrell brings West Table to life in the varied experiences of its sons and daughters. "--Wendy Smith, Washington Post, "Throughout this remarkable book, Woodrell is an unsentimental narrator of an era that is rendered both kinder and infinitely less forgiving than our own."-- Ellah Allfrey, NPR Books, "Woodrell captures the run-down, put-upon underbelly of America better than anyone, because he knows it better than anyone."--Benjamin Percy, Esquire.com, "Further Proof, As if We Needed It, That Woodrell Is a Writer to Cherish."--Adam Woog, Seattle Times
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