The Death of Sweet Mister: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “A dark, disturbing beauty of a story…Woodrell throws down sentences that will leave you amazed.”

  — Charles Frazier, National Book Award–winning author of Cold Mountain

• “I can’t remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding’s The Lord of the Flies…Woodrell has written his masterpiece—spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful.”

  — Dennis Lehane, New York Times bestselling author of Mystic River

• “Stunningly accomplished…[Woodrell] has achieved near mastery of style: language, plot, characterization, and theme mesh with a seamless power.”

  — New York Times

• “Shug’s voice is so charged with sincerity, his developing sense of self so believable, that it is impossible not to read this novel in one sitting. Woodrell writes potently about the air of sexuality and violence surrounding the family, but The Death of Sweet Mister never depicts their behavior gratuitously; instead, Woodrell slyly compels the reader to conjure up the disturbing acts of his characters without ever having to describe them. We imagine what his characters imagine, and in doing so, we come face to face with parts of ourselves we either buried long ago or never dared consciously to confront.”

  — Barnes & Noble, editorial review

• “Pack[s] a visceral punch…Woodrell’s merciless realism is shot through with humor and rural wisdom…his bleak world is rendered with consummate artistry.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “Tecosky’s cool narration becomes downright chilling as Shug learns what he’s willing to do—and what he’s willing to give up—for love.”

  — AudioFile

• “Stunning…Woodrell describes the lives of Ozark hill folk with unflinching honesty, but he never fails to find heartbreaking tenderness beneath the hardscrabble surface…A word-perfect conclusion to an unforgettable trilogy of novels.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Woodrell is an absolute master at building tension in relaxed prose, and the novel has a haunting a wonderful force.”

  — School Library Journal

• A dark, disturbing beauty of a story . . . Woodrell throws down sentences that will leave you amazed.

  — Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain

• The plot, tawdry in the abstract, is transformed by Woodrell's gallows humour and his rendering of Shug's voice, part Huck Finn, part Holden Caulfield.

  — Bharat Tandon, Times Literary Supplement (U.K.)

• A fiery, poetic, hair-raising novel.

  — Bret Israel, Los Angeles Times

• [Woodrell] has achieved near mastery of style: language, plot, characterization and theme mesh with a seamless power.

  — Michael Anderson, New York Times Book Review