"The characters in Daniel Woodrell's Tomato Red speak the poetry of
the trailer park in a world where all wisdom is hard-won. Here
there are no trust fund babies plagued by ennui. Woodrell's
universe is strictly hard-scrabble, where the only struggle
involving identity is the one to keep it concealed. We are better
for knowing it." -- Thomas H. Cook, Edgar Award-winning author of
The Last Talk with Lola Faye
"Three pages into Tomato Red I got that inexplicable head rush that
comes from wondering how I'd never heard of the book or of Daniel
Woodrell, and regretting the years I was ignorant of both. Woodrell
writes with a poetic, lyrical, breezy style that reminds me of
authentic country artists like George Jones or Hank Williams but he
somehow does it on the page. He packs an entire world into a short
book and leaves you yearning for more. Thank you, Busted Flush
Press, for introducing me to Woodrell. Now others won't make the
mistake I made." -- C. J. Box, Edgar-winning author o
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