The Maid's Version : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from Olivermagnus

In 1965 young Alek Dunahew is sent the Ozarks to spend the summer with his grandmother, Alma, a poor and illiterate maid who spent years taking care of the wealthy families of West Table, Missouri . One night during a storm she tells him the story of the 1929 Arbor Day Dance where a terrible fire...

from tangledthread

This is a short, dense novel told in the voice of a youth sent to visit his grandmother in West Table, Mo. as an act of reconciliation by his father. The narration is nonlinear....in the way a family story would be told to a child in bits and pieces over a period of time. Alma DeGeer Dunahew is t...

from RidgewayGirl

In The Maid's Version, Daniel Woodrell stays with his usual Ozark setting, this time in the small town of West Table, Missouri, but goes back ninety years to a fire in a dance hall that killed 42 people. Revolving around a teenage boy named Alek who goes to visit his grandmother in 1965, the book...

from Beamis12

Woodrell has a way of telling a story that really illuminates time and place for the reader. I loved the talks and description between Alma and her grandson. It is about a dance hall fire, in which Alma's sister's death was included with many more. Needless to say there as much background, on the...

from ElizaJane

There is no sense in me being another reviewer to go on and on about how wonderful a writer Daniel Woodrell is; he just simply is; brilliant and unlike any other modern author. This is a short book with a simple plot of an old lady retelling an horrific story from the past to her 12-year-old gran...