Promotion

Use code BESTBOOKS24 for 25% off sitewide + free shipping over $35

The Outlaw Album

Stories

The Outlaw Album Open the full-size image

Contributors

By Daniel Woodrell

Formats and Prices

Price

$19.99

Price

$16.50 CAD

Format

Format:

  1. Trade Paperback $19.99 $16.50 CAD
  2. ebook $9.99 $12.99 CAD
  3. Hardcover $24.99 $27.99 CAD
  4. Audiobook Download (Unabridged)
  5. Trade Paperback (Large Print) $19.99 $25.99 CAD

This item is a preorder. Your payment method will be charged immediately, and the product is expected to ship on or around October 9, 2012. This date is subject to change due to shipping delays beyond our control.

Also available from:

Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a “stunningly original” American master (Associated Press).

Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal behavior in this wrenching collection of stories. Desperation-both material and psychological — motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the killing of his wife’s pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches her breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behavior; an outsider’s house is set on fire by an angry neighbor.

There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories — between spouses, parents and children, siblings, and comrades in arms-which brings the troubled, sorely tested cast of characters to vivid, relatable life. And, as ever, “the music coming from Woodrell’s banjo cannot be confused with the sounds of any other writer”-Donald Harington, Atlanta Journal Constitution

“Twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by a “stunningly original”-Associated Press, American master.

Genre:

  • "He's chipped an impression of the Ozarks and its people in stone that will endure time....Let these stories be your Bible."
    Chris Talbott, Associated Press
  • "An intense volume of fury and blood in the Ozarks, The Outlaw Album crystallizes Woodrell's slicing wit and unflinching confrontation with criminality and tragedy."
    Donna Seaman, Kansas City Star
  • "Ozark writer Daniel Woodrell's first collection of short stories,The Outlaw Album is a stunner. Woodrell has the rare ability to tell compelling stories rooted in familiar soil that are simultaneously simple and complex, local and universal, funny and tragic."
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "Best Books of 2011"

On Sale
Oct 9, 2012
Page Count
208 pages
Publisher
Back Bay Books
ISBN-13
9780316019002

You May Also Like

The Haters
The Haters $29.00 $38.00 CAD
The Drowning Woman
The Drowning Woman $18.99 $24.99 CAD
Liar, Dreamer, Thief
Liar, Dreamer, Thief $18.99 $24.99 CAD
The Lies You Told
The Lies You Told $16.99 $22.99 CAD
The Falling Woman
The Falling Woman $16.95 $22.95 CAD

Daniel Woodrell

About the Author

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.

Learn more about this author