Winter’s Bone by Daniel
Woodrell
Winter’s Bone is a pitch
perfect bit of rural noir set against the backdrop of the meth-cooking
hillbillies of the Appalachian mountains. A young woman must go in search of
her father, in an effort to prove that he is dead, so the bank doesn’t
foreclose on her family home. Alone the way she visits an ever expanding web of
distant relations, all of whom are secretive, slightly scary, and live out
their lives by a different code than most of modern North America.
The language is tight, sparse,
with highly believable dialog. A movie of the same name won several awards, I
believe. While it was beautifully directed and very well acted, Mr. Woodrell
deserves the lion’s share of the credit; Winter’s Bone is a superb piece of
work.
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