The Bayou trilogy

Daniel Woodrell

Book - 2011

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Published
New York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Co 2011.
Language
English
Main Author
Daniel Woodrell (-)
Edition
1st omnibus ed
Item Description
Three books in one volume. Titles originally published 1986-1992.
Physical Description
470 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780316133654
  • Under the bright lights
  • Muscle for the wing
  • The ones you do.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Collected in a single volume for the first time, Woodrell's three stellar novels featuring Det. Rene Shade, an ex-boxer turned cop, provide entree into the Louisiana swamp town of Saint Bruno, a place where "tempers went on the prowl and relief was driving a hard bargain." Woodrell (Winter's Bone) injects Shade's life and various cases with both humor and brutal violence. In Bright Lights (1986), the investigation into a city councilman's murder mushrooms into a corruption scandal, with Shade feeling pressure from above for a quick-and predetermined-result. Muscle for the Wing (1988) finds Shade up against a gang of ex-cons, hell-bent on wrestling control of Saint Bruno's less-than-legal action. Shade and his two brothers-bar owner Tip and district attorney Francois-are reunited with their long-absent paterfamilias, John X., in The Ones You Do (1992), in which John X. returns to Saint Bruno with a 10-year-old daughter and a killer on his trail. There's poetry in Woodrell's mayhem, each novel-and scene-full of gritty and memorable Cajun details. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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