Новинки Дэниэла Вудрелла

Героиня романа Вудрелла - еще один классический образ в галерее сильных женщин мировой литературы, достойная наследница Мэтти Росс из "Железной хватки" Чарльза Иортиса и Глазастика Финч из "Убить пересмешника" Харнер Ли. Она и коня на скаку остановит, и в горящую избу войдет, и белочек свежевать научит. А что делать 17-летней Ри Долли, когда у нее на руках сумасшедшая мать и два младших брата, а непутевый отец, освободившийся из тюрьмы под залог, пустился в бега? Местный шериф сообщает ей, что, если отец не явится в суд, у ее семьи отберут дом, выставленный, оказывается, в качестве залога. Отправляясь на поиски отца, который, по слухам, уже…

Героиня романа Вудрелла — еще один классический образ в галерее сильных женщин мировой литературы, достойная наследница Мэтти Росс из «Железной хватки» Чарльза Портиса и Глазастика Финч из «Убить пересмешника» Харпер Ли. Она и коня на скаку остановит, и в горящую избу войдет, и белочек свежевать научит. А что делать 17-летней Ри Долли, когда у нее на руках сумасшедшая мать и два младших брата, а непутевый отец, освободившийся из тюрьмы под залог, пустился в бега? Местный шериф сообщает ей, что, если отец не явится в суд, у ее семьи отберут дом, выставленный, оказывается, в качестве залога. Отправляясь на поиски отца, который, по слухам, уже…

Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree discovers unforeseen depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost.

The last time Ree saw her father he didn t bring food or money but promised he d be back soon with a paper sack of cash and a truckload of delights. Since he left, she s had to look after her mother sedated and losing her looks and her two younger brothers. Ree hopes the boys won t turn out like the others in the Ozark mountains hard and mean before they ve learnt to shave.
One cold winter s day, Ree discovers that her father has put up their house as bail and that it ll be sold from under them if he doesn t show up for his trial. Ree knows she needs to find her father to save her family but in a culture riven with secrecy and paranoia her questions are unwelcome and the answers painful.
As Ree faces violence and a strange kind of loyalty she learns about courage and resilience.
This is a startingly vivid portrait of tough people and the unforgiving landscape they inhabit.

The sheriff's deputy at the front door brings hard news to Ree Dolly. Her father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. Ree's father has disappeared before. The Dolly clan has worked the shadowy side of the law for generations, and arrests (and attempts to avoid them) are part of life in Rathlin Valley. But the house is all they have, and Ree's father would never forfeit it to the bond company unless something awful happened. With two young brothers depending on her and a mother who's entered a kind of second childhood, Ree knows she…

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.

Recently jilted by his young wife, Rene's father, John X. Shade, has come back to St. Bruno. Broke, boozed-out and too shaky to hold the pool cue that once made his fame and fortune, John X. seeks the sons he abandoned years ago for more than an ordinary reunion.