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Copyright © 2003 No Exit Press
Ride With The Devil by Daniel Woodrell
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ISBN: 1901982475
Price: £6.99
Casing: Paperback
Format: B (198x129mm)
Extent: 232pp
Rights: UK & Commonwealth ex Canada
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dan Woodrell comes from a long line of Ozarkers that stretch back before the Civil War. A high school dropout he joined the marine corps at 17.The military and he saw things differently. A period of post military drifting ended up at the University of Kansas and a Michener fellowship at the Iowa Writers School, where he was definitely the odd man out. His first novel, Under the Bright Lights, used the noir form and bought him high praise and recognition from fellow writers. He has also written two other noir novels featuring the Shade family, Muscle for the Wing and The Ones You Do, the civil war novel, Woe To Live On, the country noir, Give Us A Kiss and the acclaimed Tomato Red. He lives in West Plains, Missouri with his wife, the writer, Katie Estill.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri during the American Civil War Ride with the Devil explores the nature of lawlessness and violence through the eyes and thoughts of Jake Roedel. During the winter of 1861 Roedel grows up quickly experiencing a brutal, lawless parody of war without standards or mercy. Woodrell's colloquial dialogue seems to suggest a connection between the America of the 1860's and the present day.
Ride with the Devil is a renegade western in the style of Thomas Berger's Little Big Man that celebrates the genre while at the same time bushwacking some of it's most celebrated traditions.
Ride with the Devil has been filmed by Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Wedding Banquet, Pushing Hands). Co-screenwriter with Ang Lee is James Schamus (as above). The film stars Skeet Ulrich (Scream, As Good As It Gets), Tobey Maguire (Pleasantville, The Ice Storm), Jeffrey Wright (Angels In America: Perestroika, Basquiat) and in her feature film debut, pop star and poet, Jewel. The film’s co-stars are Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Michael Collins, The Velvet Goldmine), Simon Baker-Denny (LA Confidential) and James Caviezel.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
"Terrific." - Literary Review
"Woodrell's not widely known here, but in America his five books to date have had writers as diverse as James Ellroy, Barry Gifford, James Crumley, Carl Hiaasen and E Annie Proulx clearing their throats to sing his praises.Uncut
'Every now and again a novel jumps head and shoulders above the crowd. Nine times out of ten it's because the writer's voice is so different that it demands attention. Daniel Woodrell's exotic and evocative Ride with the Devil is a perfect example...Rich, raunchy and riotously readable, Daniel Woodrell is one of the most exciting writers I've discovered in a long time.' - Val McDermid in the Manchester Evening News'Dan Woodrell can tell me stories any time. He can come to my house, pull up a chair on the porch, pour himself a long drink or whatever it is he's fond of, scratch my dog between the ears and let fly. I don't know that I'll let him around my wife and daughter, though, unless he's closely supervised." - Pinckney Benedict
'Woodrell is a marvellous writer' - Roddy Doyle
RELATED LINKS
Review (Crime Time On-Line)Author interview (Richmond Review)
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