The book consists of three novels
featuring Detective Rene Shade, an ex-boxer turned cop dealing with murder
investigations, corruption scandals, and gangs of ex-cons in the Louisiana
swamp town of Saint Bruno. "Old
fans and new readers alike ought to be grateful....The novels showcase
Woodrell's evolution as a writer....Woodrell's The Bayou Trilogy
supplies all the pleasure of hard-boiled noir: laconic cynicism, casually
colorful characters and a hero whose feet of clay make his dedication to law
and order all the more admirable," wrote the reviewer in the Chicago
Tribune.
The author of eight novels, Daniel
Woodrell was born and now lives in the Missouri Ozarks. He left school and enlisted in the Marines the
week he turned seventeen, received his bachelor's degree at age twenty-seven,
graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and spent a year on a Michener
Fellowship. 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 in 1999.
Led by Evelyn Fischel, Saturday
Samplers is a book discussion group dedicated to sampling various kinds of
literature, including short stories, nonfiction, new and old novels, and even
teen fiction. Its goal is to search out interesting,
noteworthy, and sometimes overlooked books.
Readers can find information about the group and about the books and
authors on the reading list at http://saturdaysamplers.blogspot.com. No sign-up is needed to join the
discussion. Call the library at 766-0118
for more information.
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