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Readers may have encountered ten of the twelve stories collected here in periodicals such as Esquire, New Letters, and The Missouri Review, or in anthologies such as A Hell of a Woman, Men From Boys, and Bloodlines. I can imagine that when nestled in amongst other voices in these publications, Woodrell's distinctive prose bites the reader like a snake hiding in a woodpile. His first-person Ozark narratives are hard to mistake as belonging to any other author, and their matter of fact recounting
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Meghan
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