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Title: WINTER'S BONE

Author: DANIEL WOODRELL

Front Cover, Top Left Text: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Front Cover, Bottom Text: 撤rofound and haunting...the lineage from Faulkner to Woodrell runs as deep and true as an Ozark stream.- LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Side Publication Company: BACK BAY BOOKS

Back Cover, Top left text: FICTION
Back Cover, Top right text: A BACK BAY BOOK

Continued Back Cover:
鄭 STUNNER, A BLEAK, BEAUTIFULLY TOLD STORY ABOUT THE INESCAPABLE BONDS OF LAND AND BLOOD. . . . CONTEMPORARY FICTION AT ITS FINEST.”

REE DOLL'S father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dolly family will lose their house if he doesnt show up for his next court date. With two younger brothers depending on her, sixteen-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Stalking him through the blighted wintry hollows of the Ozarks, Ree discovers unforeseen depths in herself and in the Dolly clan a family network that protects its own at any cost.

鉄ometimes brutal, sometimes mordantly funny, sometimes surprising sweet. . . . I just didn't want Winter's Bone to end.”
HARPER BARNES, ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

鄭s serious as a snakebite. . . . In Winter's Bone Daniel Woodrell as hit upon the character of a lifetime. . . . His Old Testament prose and blunt vision has a chilly timelessness that suggest this novel will speak to readers as long as there are readers.”
DAVID BOWMAN, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

展oodrell is a stunningly original writer. . . . Ree Dolly is one of the most memorable female heroes in modern American fiction.
ASSOCIATED PRESS

Text Next to Author Image: DANIEL WOODRELL lives in the Missouri Ozarks near the Arkansas line. His five most recent novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and Tomato Red won the PEN West Award for the Novel.

Back Cover, Lower Left Text: COVER DESIGN BY PLOY DIRIPANT
COVER PHOTOGRAPHYS:
HOUSE MARC ROSENTHAL/eSTOCK PHOTO;
GIRL BY DAVID W. ORTEGA

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