![]() ![]() Soon he and Glenda are engaged in a torrid affair setting in motion a series of events that are violent, shocking, and totally unpredictable-yet irredeemably inevitable. ![]() Then along comes Jimmy Vin Pearce with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. The three tentatively coexist in a ramshackle house situated in a "boneyard" in a rough-hewn Ozark town. His putative father, Red, a brutal man with a short fuse, mocks and despises the boy. His distracted, frequently tipsy mother, Glenda, turns a blind eye to the effect her sexually provocative teasing has on him. But not even he can fully comprehend the nature of the forces working against him. Daniel Woodrell delivers his most powerful work to date in The Death of Sweet Mister.Īn overweight, lonely thirteen-year-old, Shuggie Akins is shrewdly observant. ![]()
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