—Chicago Tribune

  “Woodrell finds poetry in a blood feud…. Readers will respond to his sizzling language, his sure hand with dialogue and his deft characterizations.”

  —Al Maginnes, Raleigh News & Observer

  Contents

  WELCOME

  DEDICATION

  EPIGRAPH

  FOREWORD

  CHAPTER 1: THREE FINGER JERKS

  CHAPTER 2: THAT BULLHEAD LOOKS TASTY

  CHAPTER 3: FLAME LICKS

  CHAPTER 4: SPIT STORM

  CHAPTER 5: NAMED FOR TRAUMA

  CHAPTER 6: COW-PATTIE LINKS

  CHAPTER 7: THAT SMELL

  CHAPTER 8: SKID MARKS

  CHAPTER 9: CAST A GOOMER

  CHAPTER 10: BOOGERDOG

  CHAPTER 11: BOILED ONION EYES

  CHAPTER 12: PEACE IN THE VALLEY

  CHAPTER 13: CLAWFOOT WASH

  CHAPTER 14: THE PENNIES TELL ALL

  CHAPTER 15: MINGLED GREASE BUCKET

  CHAPTER 16: ROCKY DROP

  CHAPTER 17: SPOT THE SILICONE

  CHAPTER 18: HEY, NEIGHBOR

  CHAPTER 19: FOR REAL-ISM

  CHAPTER 20: SHOOKY BIZNESS

  CHAPTER 21: CREAMED CORN AND DESIRE

  CHAPTER 22: THIS DREAM MEANS IT

  CHAPTER 23: INCAS DRINK FREE

  CHAPTER 24: THE POINT OF THE COUNTRY

  CHAPTER 25: TUFFY JUST BRISTLES UP AT THAT COLOR MOON

  CHAPTER 26: BLOOD ON BLOOD

  CHAPTER 27: CALL THE TUNE

  CHAPTER 28: CLOSING TIME

  CHAPTER 29: THE NODS

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  READING GROUP GUIDE

  HOW MUCH OF THE OZARKS IS IN ME?

  QUESTIONS AND TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION

  BY DANIEL WOODRELL

  PRAISE FOR DANIEL WOODRELL’S GIVE US A KISS

  COPYRIGHT

  Copyright

  The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

  Copyright © 1996 by Daniel Woodrell

  Foreword copyright © 2012 by Pinckney Benedict

  Reading group guide copyright © 2012 by Daniel Woodrell and Little, Brown and Company

  Cover design by Ploy Siripant; cover painting: Sleeping Woman, © www.amsterdam-artgallery.com / Anikeev Sergey

  Cover copyright © 2012 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.

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  ISBN 978-0-316-20619-8

 


 

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