Woe to Live On

A Novel

Contributors

By Daniel Woodrell

Foreword by Ron Rash

Read by Bernard Setaro Clark

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Jun 19, 2012
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781611135060

Price

$24.99

Format

Format:

  1. Audiobook Download (Unabridged) $24.99
  2. Trade Paperback $17.99 $23.99 CAD

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.

Daniel Woodrell

About the Author

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detectivewhen he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet(1955), and The Grifters (1963).

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