Woe to Live On, Daniel Woodrell
Woe to Live On, Daniel Woodrell
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Woe to Live On
A Novel

Author: Daniel Woodrell, Ron Rash

Narrator: Bernard Setaro Clark

Unabridged: 6 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/19/2012

Synopsis

Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe, no one can be neutral. Roedel grows up fast, experiencing a brutal parody of war without standards or mercy. But as friends fall and families flee, he questions his loyalties and becomes an outsider even to those who have become outlaws.

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 Andy on September 22, 2023

Savage, brutal, brilliant.......more

Goodreads review by James on April 04, 2013

This is another very good novel from Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter's Bone, set on the contentious border between Kansas and Missouri during the American Civil War. While Union and Confederate armies fight traditional battles farther east, in this no-man's land, "Bushwhackers" and "Jayhawkers" fi......more

Goodreads review by Eric on December 19, 2017

Woe to Live On by Daniel Woodrell follows Jake Roedel, a young, Confederate-leaning southerner, as he rides across the south in the early 1860's with a band of men as they pillage, rob and attack those with Northern leanings and those felt to have attacked the southern culture and way of life. Roede......more

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