The Maid's Version: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Woodrell sets a spooky tone in his ninth novel. Based on a true story…this is an entirely original, brutal, and darkly elegant book, and Woodrell is a storyteller at the top of his game.”

  — Amazon.com Review

• “Exquisite…Woodrell orchestrates a captivating, almost operatic narrative of how tragedy and grief can transform places and people…Woodrell delivers a stunning story of one small town and all of its profound complexities and opaque mysteries. It’s a considerable achievement and a pleasure to read.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “I’d gladly sign a petition to see Mr. Woodrell included on any roll call of America’s finest living writers. He conveys a sense of the past with the stringent affection of Katherine Anne Porter, his turns at bedlam humor are worthy of Charles Portis, and his gorgeously tangled prose is all his own.

  — Wall Street Journal

• “Compact and soulful...The Maid’s Version’s worth is also in its luminous prose. Woodrell’s sentences bristle with finely tuned language and almost biblical rhythms of his character’s speech...further proof, as if we needed it, that Woodrell is a writer to cherish.”

  — Seattle Times

• “From an economy of poetic prose springs forth an emotionally volcanic story of family, justice, and the everlasting power of the truth.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “This may be a minor work for this major American writer, but no craftsman toiling away in a workshop ever fashioned his wares so carefully. A commanding fable about trespass and reconstruction from a titan of Southern fiction.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• In prose both taut and lyrical, Winter's Bone vividly evokes the spirit of one little woman warrior.

  — Edna O'Brien