IMDB BLURB - An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.Jennifer Lawrence ... Ree Isaiah Stone ... Sonny Ashlee Thompson ... Ashlee Valerie Richards ... Connie Shelley ...
Grim, chilling, but very readable, thriller set in the Ozarks. Ree Dolly is on the prowl for her father, who has suddenly vanished. Unfortunately, he's also put the family home up for his bail bond, and they could loose everything. In a world of starvation and pride, can Ree find her father before t...
This beautifully haunting, fast paced drama about a family struggling to survive will stick with me for a long time to come.The story revolves around Ree, a teenage girl who is struggling to give her younger siblings a normal life. Life is hard, but it gets harder when the sheriff shows up at Ree's ...
This was a great movie, and it's a great book as well. The action centers around a sixteen-year-old girl living in an impossible situation with overwhelming responsibilities in the face of a serious threat to her family. She manages to endure with remarkable integrity while figuring out how to sur...
I'm always impressed with writers that can make eloquent prose about mundane and depressing topics. In Winter's Bone, It doesn't get more depressing than the back-woods meth-dominated environment that this novel is about. This is one of those marvelous novels that is about people and things I never...
I fell head over heels in love with this book. I myself grew up in Missouri and remember fondly the rural and sometimes backwood ways. This book put me right back into that frame of mind. I loved Ree Dolly and reminds me a lot of girls I know that had to grow up quick and fast. [return]As for the bo...
This is somewhere between four and five stars. It's a short, gripping novel. It'll grip you, pull your hair and shake you around until your eyeballs rattle. Vivid and dirty, yet with lyrical moments of beauty, due to Woodrell's deft writing.
Kaye Gibbons came to mind while reading this. If this is any indication, Woodrell, like Gibbons, is a master of the pitch-perfect, colloquial sort of story in which the characters are variations on a theme of place, and one character becomes its heart and voice. Here it's the Ozark outback, and a gi...
Kaye Gibbons came to mind while reading this. If this is any indication, Woodrell, like Gibbons, is a master of the pitch-perfect, colloquial sort of story in which the characters are variations on a theme of place, and one character becomes its heart and voice. Here it's the Ozark outback, and a gi...
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