Full name: Tomato Red: A Novel

Author: Daniel Woodrell Year: 1998 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Crime, Mystery Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780805055771 9780316206211 0805055770 0316206210

In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be. Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need. Similar books: The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell Andrew's Brain by E. L. Doctorow Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley This Side of Innocence by Taylor Caldwell Point of No Return by John P. Marquand Pilgrim's Inn by Elizabeth Goudge Daughter of Silence by Morris West The Plot by Irving Wallace The Insult by Rupert Thomson The Good Companions by J. B. Priestley A Kind of Loving by Stan Barstow A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin Ticket to Ride by Dennis Potter The Affairs of Others by Amy Grace Loyd Want Not by Jonathan Miles Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell Scarred for Life by Kerry Wilkinson Two-Faced by Mandasue Heller Tainted Lives by Mandasue Heller Shella by Andrew Vachss