The Death of Sweet Mister : A Novel (Paperback)

from ElizaJane

Reason for Reading: This may sound weird but, I enjoy reading well-written depressing books. I have never read this author before nor actually even heard of him, but he caught my eye when I saw that the publisher had reprinted all his works in a new line of trade paperbacks. I had a hard time dec...

from RidgewayGirl

Shug, whose mother affectionately calls her sweet little mister, has been dealt a tough hand in life. He's thirteen, overweight and friendless, with an alcoholic and promiscuous mother and an abusive father his mother hints isn't really his father. They live in a small house in a cemetery, the re...

from Donna828

Daniel Woodrell is a very good writer. He just happens to write about distasteful topics. In this book he writes about Red who was about as mean as they come. Red liked two things: Shug's mother Glenda and olden rhyming rock'n roll. He was a "bubble off plumb," and the only time he was even halfw...

from MarkPSadler

Reader's Digest claimed this author to be one of the great but unknown contemporary writers so I gave the recommended book a read. I don't care how well written it was, or intellectually stimulating or southern depicting, or crafted to perfection, and it was all these, any book that depicts a fat...

from MarkPSadler

Reader's Digest claimed this author to be one of the great but unknown contemporary writers so I gave the recommended book a read. I don't care how well written it was, or intellectually stimulating or southern depicting, or crafted to perfection, and it was all these, any book that depicts a fat...