· The Maid's Version is the story of a small town called West Table (modeled closely on Woodrell's own home base of West Plains), which is blindsided by tragedy in the summer of in the form of a deadly and mysterious dance-hall explosion. (This too is rooted in real history.)/5. · Illustration by John Gall. By S. Kirk Walsh. Dec. 13, THE MAID’S VERSION. By Daniel Woodrell. Little, Brown, $ Woodrell’s exquisite ninth novel recounts the tragic tale of a fiery Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. · The Maid's Version is an exploration of the psychology of trauma, the roles and labels given to individuals in societies, as well as the relationship of poverty to Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
Editions for The Maid's Version: (Hardcover published in ), (Kindle Edition published in ), X (Audio CD published in ), 8. The Maid's Version (), by Daniel Woodrell Septem Septem / johnbmort Reviewers often compare Daniel Woodrell to William Faulkner (easy to see), Flannery O'Connor (not really; she was a devout Catholic and much funnier), and Cormac McCarthy (again, because of the Faulknerian prose, the violence, the testosterone). The American master's first novel since Winter's Bone () tells of a deadly dance hall fire and its impact over several generations. Alma DeGeer Dunahew, the mother of three young boys, works as the maid for a prominent citizen and his family in West Table, Missouri. Her husband is mostly absent, and, in , her scandalous, beloved younger.
The Maid's Version is an exploration of the psychology of trauma, the roles and labels given to individuals in societies, as well as the relationship of poverty to impotence, of wealth to immunity. Woodrell's first novel since 's chillingly exact Winter's Bone was inspired by a dance-hall explosion in his hometown that took 28 lives. Woodrell heard about it from his grandmother, maid to a family that included someone rumored to be responsible. Library Journal. Book Review: 'The Maid's Version,' By Daniel Woodrell Daniel Woodrell's new novel explores the lingering consequences of an explosion in an Ozarks dance hall that kills 42 people. It wasn't an.
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