Description:
My imagination is always skulking about in a wrong place. And now Doyle Redmond, thirty-five-year-old nowhere writer, has crossed the line between imagination and real live trouble. On the lam in his soon-to-be-ex-wife's Volvo, he's running a family errand back in his boyhood home of West Table, Missouri. The law wants his big brother, Smoke, on a felony warrant, and Doyle's supposed to talk him into giving up. But Smoke is hunkered down in the hills with his partner, Big Annie, and her beautiful teenage daughter, Niagra, planning to harvest a profitable patch of homegrown marijuana. Finding this an attractive prospect on a few levels, Doyle decides to join his brother's scheme. Big trouble ensues, as the Dolly clan, the Redmond's longtime archrival, wants a piece of the action, too.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
The dialog here is solid and the players unforgettable. Narrator Brian Troxell's accented presentation brings out both the humor and the sometimes deadly seriousness of each episode. The story also has as close to a happy ending as Woodrell musters. Both raunchy and dangerous, this will have listeners demanding a sequel.
-- "Library Journal (audio review)"