Winters Knochen
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9783935890762 (3935890761)
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: liebeskind
Pages no: 222
Edition language: Deutsch
I’m not even sure how to review this book. It was a tough read, in that it provoked powerfully conflicting emotions. Being a fan of horror fiction, it’s not as though graphic violence is especially off-putting for me, but this portrayed graphic violence in a setting of utter realism, in a segment of...
I felt sorry for Ree throughout this whole novel. The responsibilities and her mannerisms reminded me a thirty-year old woman and here she was just sixteen. She was forced to be the head-of-the-household as the adults in her life have checked out. Her mother is sick and has been for quite some time,...
Just wow. This is a great book. I can't begin to describe Ree, but she's one of the toughest characters I've ever read. And somehow, misery- and violence-filled though Woodrell's Ozarks seem to be, he somehow makes them magical
4.5 starsI love it when I read a book or watch a movie and I discover a new and unique world or community that I was never familiar with before. Daniel Woodrell writes about the tight knit communities in the Missouri Ozark Mountains. I'm almost totally unfamiliar with small American towns like this,...
I checked this book out from my library after someone at one of my author talks raved about it. I enjoyed it so much that I bought my own copy today--I'm certain that I'll reread it. It contains one of the best passages demonstrating the use of description of setting to convey emotion--what MFA'ers ...
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