I first read this ten years ago and it is still stunning second time around . This re-read was better than the first time, it is truely remarkable.
It is one of the best books I have ever read. The humanity and lack of it is stunning all the way through. Wonderful prose, great characters
Woodrell has a modicum of fame and this book is now a movie but he deserves to be front and centre at every book store you walk into.
From the first time I read it:
A couple of times a year, if I'm really lucky I find a book that's extraordinary and 'Winter's Bone' is one, its an amazing book.
Set in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, 16 year old Ree Dolly goes looking for her father. She lives in a area where everyone knows how to shoot and 'most families are cooking up crank on the back porch'.
She finds out that asking questions is dangerous for your health.
The writing draws you in and makes it un-put downable.
It's a short read ,193 pages, its dark and tells a tale of people who have no time for authority and where a slight can go unforgiven for generations.
It has been made in to a movie and I am dreading how a screenplay will butcher this wonderful writing. (2006)
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