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Trapped and doomed

By June 9, 2022No Comments

Daniel Woodrell’s ‘The Death Of Sweet Mister’ could be described as falling into the same school of Southern Gothic as Flannery O’Conner and Carson McCullers, but I prefer Woodrell’s own description of ‘country noir’.

It’s a world of hardscrabble lives, of cars held together with rust and filler, of shotgun shacks and low expectations.

The tragedy of the Ozark white trash who populate these pages is that they are aware they’re trapped, that there is no escape for them, except in the temporary release of alcohol or violence.

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