April 12, 2024
Daniel Woodrell SIGNED Give Us A Kiss 1996 HC 1st DJ
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Daniel Woodrell, Give Us A Kiss, 1996, Henry Holt. SIGNED (by the author in black ink with Signature only on the title page) Hardcover, First Edition/First Printing. Like New, in like dust jacket. Woodrell does not sign very often, so grab this while you can. Please check my other auctions for more Signed books by this author.From Booklist " It's a strange, powerful bloodline poetry, I guess, but there's something so potent to us Redmonds about bustin' laws together, as a family." You don't hear much from white-trash philosophers in contemporary fiction, but Woodrell is doing his best to change that. His last novel, The Ones You Do (1992), gave us the irrepressible John X. Shade, and this time he goes one better with Doyle Redmond, the maverick college boy from an Ozark family of dirt farmers and convicts. Doyle returns to his roots with gusto when he agrees to help his infamous brother Smoke (think Robert Mitchum in Thunder Road) with the season's marijuana harvest. A nice plan, to be sure, except for the generations-old blood feud between the Redmonds and the Dollys. It all goes bad, of course, but in an exquisitely ironic way. Dirt farmers, Woodrell tells us, "have no quit in them." Neither do novelists determined to show a 1990s audience the special mix of poetry, stubbornness, humanity, and just-plain meanness in the souls of
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