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Loading... Tomato Red (original 1998; edition 2010)by Daniel Woodrell, Megan Abbott (Foreword)
Work InformationTomato Red by Daniel Woodrell (1998)
  
No current Talk conversations about this book.  Chica3000 | Dec 11, 2020 |    ) Rdra1962 | Aug 1, 2018 | I love the way Woodrell writes. He coined the phrase "country noir" and that is exactly what it is. Such amazing writing about such dismal surroundings. He's a genius. (  ) Juliasb | Dec 1, 2016 | Squish, splat this "tomatoe" back to the Ozarks!! This was my initial reaction to the longest, jumbled and muddled opening sentence I have ever read. But, I love fresh homegrown tomatoes. So I kept reading on and I am happy I did. Daniel Woodrell’s Tomatoe Red is a country noir, told from the eyes of Sammy Barlach, a meth-head and drifter seeking to belong to a family and community. The dialogue and characters are believable. The setting is rich. The first half of this book is real "meaty". There is not much of a story line. A small murder mystery plot exists and the ending seems a bit rushed. Overall its a good book. ( ) WanderRoxyBooks | Aug 3, 2016 | Sammy Barlach, the narrator and anti-hero of the book tells his story honestly and simply. During the course of a break-and-enter robbery of a vacant house, he comes into contact with the engaging sister and brother team of Jamalee, the Tomato Red of the title and her brother, Jason. Sammy is pulled into their life and before too long finds himself living with them next door to their prostitute mother, Bev. They become a weird sort of family with Sammy being rather taken with both mother and daughter. Of course being a Woodrell novel, violence is always on the horizon and although this story becomes a tragedy, the telling of it is colorful and engaging. At times, Tomato Red is a little overwritten and melodramatic, but the author is extremely adapt at telling a story that can change from light-hearted humor to dark violence within a page. Sammy’s story is in reality a strong, violent statement on the hopelessness of poverty in America. ( ) DeltaQueen50 | May 14, 2016 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML: In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red from her rage and ambition, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother, Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks, that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be. Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need. .No library descriptions found. |
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This book started so well. I was so intrigued. A house robber knocked out, waking up to two creepy teenagers with a plan. . . .I thought I knew where this was going.
Well, I didn't.
It basically didn't really go anywhere. . .well, not anywhere good.
I read through to the end and it was sad. So sad.
Loved the title, though. That's what intrigued me. (