Reviews
"A courageous, audacious, resourceful 16-year-old girl destined to enter the pantheon of literature's heroines."-- Donald Harrington , Atlanta Journal Constitution, "Sometimes brutal, sometimes mordantly funny, sometimes surprisingly sweet . . .I just didn't want WINTER'S BONE to end."-- St. Louis Post Dispatch, "The plot of WINTER'S BONE is uncomplicated, yet it packs a kind of biblical, Old West, Cormac McCarthy wallop--hard and deep."-- Cleveland Plain Dealer, Daniel Woodrell has produced another stunner, a bleak, beautifully told story about the inescapable bonds of land and blood--fiction at its finest., The lineage from Faulkner to Woodrell runs as deep and true as an Ozark stream in this book. . .his most profound and haunting yet., "Heroines this Inspiring Don't Come Along Often. When They Do, They Deserve Our Attention."-- People, "The lineage from Faulkner to Woodrell runs as deep and true as an Ozark stream in this book. . .his most profound and haunting yet."-- Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sometimes brutal, sometimes mordantly funny, sometimes surprisingly sweet . . .I just didn't want WINTER'S BONE to end., "Woodrell's Old Testament prose and blunt vision have a chilly timelessness that suggests this novel will speak to readers as long as there are readers."-- New York Times Book Review, "Daniel Woodrell has produced another stunner, a bleak, beautifully told story about the inescapable bonds of land and blood--fiction at its finest."-- Kansas City Star, A courageous, audacious, resourceful 16-year-old girl destined to enter the pantheon of literature's heroines., The plot of WINTER'S BONE is uncomplicated, yet it packs a kind of biblical, Old West, Cormac McCarthy wallop--hard and deep., Woodrell's Old Testament prose and blunt vision have a chilly timelessness that suggests this novel will speak to readers as long as there are readers.