Full name: The Outlaw Album: Stories

Author: Daniel Woodrell Year: 2011 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Short Stories, Mystery, Noir, Crime Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780316057561 9780316019002 0316057568 0316019003

Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a "stunningly original" (Associated Press) American master. Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological--motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry neighbor. There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories--between spouses, parents and children, siblings, and comrades in arms-which brings the troubled, sorely tested cast of characters to vivid, relatable life. And, as ever, "the music coming from Woodrell's banjo cannot be confused with the sounds of any other writer" (Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal Constitution). Similar books: Who Do You Love by Jean Thompson Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night by Thisbe Nissen Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash All Around Atlantis by Deborah Eisenberg Fascination by William Boyd More Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl Single, Carefree, Mellow by Katherine Heiny The Collected Stories by Grace Paley The Collected Short Stories by Jeffrey Archer The Night In Question by Tobias Wolff Do Not Deny Me by Jean Thompson The Cranes That Build The Cranes by Jeremy Dyson Never Trust A Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell Crimes in Southern Indiana by Frank Bill Pickup on Noon Street by Raymond Chandler Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell A Treasury of Sayers Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers