Foreword by Ron Rash

On Sale: Jun 19, 2012
Page Count: 256 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN-13: 9780316206167

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Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe, no one can be neutral. Roedel grows up fast, experiencing a brutal parody of war without standards or mercy. But as friends fall and families flee, he questions his loyalties and becomes an outsider even to those who have become outlaws.

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Daniel Woodrell is also the author of eight novels including The Maid’s Version, Winter’s Bone, and The Death of Sweet Mister, as well as the collection The Outlaw Album. He is the recipient of the PEN West Award, and five of his eight novels have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Three of his novels have been adapted for film, including the Oscar-nominated Winter’s Bone. He lived in the Ozarks near the Arkansas line with his wife, Katie Estill, and died in 2025.

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"[A] fine novel...Daniel Woodrell has captured the devastation of war and, more importantly, the twisting of men's minds."
United Press International
"The violence is fast and understated, and bawdy humor relieves the story's intensity."
Kansas City Star
"A renegade Western...that celebrates the genre while bushwhacking its most cherished traditions...Jake Roedel recites his tale of woe in an improbably rustic idiom, with a malignant humor and a hip sensibility that are wise beyond his years and way ahead of his times."
Chicago Tribune
"Woodrell pins it down just right...speaks to the universal cruelty of civil war."
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Daniel Woodrell

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Daniel Woodrell is also the author of eight novels including The Maid’s Version, Winter’s Bone, and The Death of Sweet Mister, as well as the collection The Outlaw Album. He is the recipient of the PEN West Award, and five of his eight novels have been selected as New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Three of his novels have been adapted for film, including the Oscar-nominated Winter’s Bone. He lived in the Ozarks near the Arkansas line with his wife, Katie Estill, and died in 2025.

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