“Woodrell’s Old Testament prose and blunt vision have a chilly timelessness that suggests this novel will speak to readers as long as there are readers.”
“Despite the roughness of the content, Woodrell has a poet’s sense of how to turn a phrase…. Seek him out now, throw down fifteen bucks, and bend your face to the page. You’ll come away as I do—darkly changed, begging for another.”
“The lineage from Faulkner to Woodrell runs as deep and true as an Ozark stream in this book… his most profound and haunting work yet.”