Tomato Red, Daniel Woodrell
Tomato Red, Daniel Woodrell
1 Rating(s)
List: $18.99 | Sale: $13.29
Club: $9.49

Tomato Red
A Novel

Author: Daniel Woodrell, Megan Abbott

Narrator: Brian Troxell

Unabridged: 4 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/24/2012


Synopsis

A sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell's collection of "country noir" novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.

In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be.

Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need.

About Daniel Woodrell

Five of Daniel Woodrell's published novels were selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Tomato Red won the PEN West Award for the Novel in 1999. Woodrell lives in the Ozarks near the Arkansas line with his wife, Katie Estill.


Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on September 03, 2018

tomato red is an earlier book by daniel woodrell, and occasionally this becomes apparent. there are moments where it gets a little overwritten even for me, the lover of melodrama and the densely-packed sentence. is it as good as winter's bone?? no. but it's like saying "is megan fox as hot as angelina......more

Goodreads review by James on October 13, 2018

Tomato Red has one of the best--and one of the longest--opening lines you'll ever read, and it sets the stage for a very good book that might best be categorized as Hillbilly Noir. Sammy Barlach, the narrator and main protagonist, is new to West Table, Missouri, and to his job at the dog food factor......more

Goodreads review by Lawyer on November 01, 2012

Tomato Red: Daniel Woodrell's Tale of Leaving Home Welcome to West Table, Missouri. Meet Sammy Barlach who's just hired on down at the dog food factory. It's Friday night. The Tequila and Meth have got Sammy flying, impressing new friends down at the bar. Wanting to fit in with the new gang, when one......more


Quotes

"Dan Woodrell does for the Ozarks what Raymond Chandler did for Los Angeles."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times

"A shimmering novel, rich with insight...a pleasure... Zooms on the rocket fuel of Woodrell's explosively original language."—The Washington Post Book World

"Woodrell's storytelling is as melodic, jangly and energetic as a good banjo riff.... Sammy Barlach's story is a tragedy, but the telling of it is a pleasure."—Valerie Sayers, The New York Times Book Review