The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell audiobook

The Death of Sweet Mister

By Daniel Woodrell
Foreword by Dennis Lehane
Read by Nicholas Tecosky

Hachette Book Group

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 1 Format: Library CD

  • ISBN: 9781611130010

Runtime: 4.77 Hours
Category: Fiction/Literary
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

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 father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises the boy. Into this small-town Ozarks mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce, with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. When he and Glenda begin a torrid affair, a series of violent events is inevitably set in motion. The outcome will break your heart.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A dark, disturbing beauty of a story…Woodrell throws down sentences that will leave you amazed.” —Charles Frazier, New York Times bestselling author
“[Woodrell] has achieved near mastery of style: language, plot, characterization, and theme mesh with a seamless power.” —New York Times Book Review
“A fiery, poetic, hair-raising novel.” —Los Angeles Times
“The plot, tawdry in the abstract, is transformed by Woodrell’s gallows humor and his rendering of Shug’s voice, part Huck Finn, part Holden Caulfield.” —Times Literary Supplement (London)
“Peels back the layers from lives already made bare by poverty and petty crime, exposing the reader to the raw everyday hopes and fears of the poor and the helpless…Woodrell writes books that are small in volume but large in scope. It is impossible to put down this story of less than two hundred pages until the final tragedy unfolds.” —Amazon.com, editorial review
“Woodrell excels at depicting the seedy side of Southern living, and in this brooding coming-of-age tale he revisits the hardscrabble Ozarks town of West Table, Missouri, his dark, insistently realist prose packing a visceral punch…Woodrell displays his characters in an unforgiving light, never succumbing to the urge to romanticize them…Woodrell’s merciless realism is shot through with humor and rural wisdom…his bleak world is rendered with consummate artistry.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[Woodrell] finds poetry in pathos, but he also turns coming of age into a bargain with the devil. A word-perfect conclusion to an unforgettable trilogy of novels.” —Booklist
“[A] quick, compelling read…Recommended.” —Library Journal
“Woodrell is an absolute master at building tension in relaxed prose, and the novel has a haunting and wonderful force.” —School Library Journal

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Author

Author Bio: Daniel Woodrell

Author Bio: Daniel Woodrell

Daniel Woodrell lives in the Missouri Ozarks near the Arkansas state line. His five most recent novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and Tomato Red won the PEN West Award for the Novel. Two novels have been adapted as major motion pictures: Woe to Live On, filmed in 1999 by Ang Lee as Ride with the Devil, starring Tobey Maguire and Skeet Ulrich, and Winter’s Bone, a 2010 film accepted to the US dramatic competition category at the Sundance Film Festival.

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Details

Available Formats : Library CD
Category: Fiction/Literary
Runtime: 4.77
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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