false 112529 5 <B>Penzler Pick, June 2001:</B> This is Daniel Woodrell's third book set in the Ozarks and, like the other two, <I>Give Us a Kiss</I> and <I>Tomato Red</I>, it peels back the layers from lives already made bare by poverty and petty crime, exposing the reader to the raw everyday hopes and fears of the poor and the helpless.<p> Told through the voice of an overweight 13-year-old boy named Shuggy Atkins, this is the story of Shug; the one person who loves him, his mother Glenda; and her boyfriend Red, a brutal and ignorant man. Red hates Shug but uses him to break into houses to steal drugs and anything else that can be sold. Glenda makes a meager living looking after the local cemetery and spends her time trying to keep Red amused and away from Shug, whom he loves to humiliate but whom she adores. Glenda is Shug's only champion. She calls him Sweet Mister as she continually boosts his confidence and promises a better life for him, if not for herself.<p> But when Glenda sees a beautiful, green Thunderbird with leather seats and its driver, Jimmy Vin Pearce, a chain of events is set into motion that will end in violence and bloodshed. Glenda must keep hidden from Red her infatuation with Jimmy Vin's money and fine clothes while she and Shug dream separate dreams of making a new life away from the violence.<p> Woodrell writes books that are small in volume but large in scope. It is impossible to put down this story of less than 200 pages until the final tragedy unfolds. <I>--Otto Penzler</I> 108348 30 7 2001 The Death of Sweet Mister total:81|5:19|4:36|3:18|2:6|1:2| 81 307 119 9 4 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 19:07:20 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 19:22:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Feb 23 04:01:43 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 04:07:23 -0800 2008
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