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The Bayou Trilogy

Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do

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The Bayou Trilogy

Written by: Daniel Woodrell
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
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A hard-hitting, critically acclaimed trilogy of crime novels from an author about whom New York magazine has written, "What people say about Cormac McCarthy...goes double for [Woodrell]. Possibly more."

In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and double-dealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth.

As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of ex-cons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrell's three seminal novels pit long-entrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different sons against a long-absent father.

The Bayou Trilogy highlights the origins of a one-of-a-kind author, a writer who for over two decades has created an indelible representation of the shadows of the rural American experience and has steadily built a devoted following among crime fiction aficionados and esteemed literary critics alike.

©2011 Daniel Woodrell (P)Mulholland Books
Crime Thrillers Fiction Police Procedural Suspense Thriller Mystery
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"Woodrell writes drolly and pungently of rednecks and swamp rats with the affection and exasperation of a man who has spent his life among them.... The Bayou Trilogy stands with the best crime fiction of its period." (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

"Old fans and new readers alike out to be grateful.... The novels showcase Woodrell's evolution as a writer.... Woodrell's The Bayou Trilogy supplies all the pleasure of hard-boiled noir: laconic cynicism, casually colorful characters (a diner owner, for instance, is described as having 'slightly more than a basic issue of a nose') and a hero whose feet of clay make his dedication to law and order all the more admirable." (Chicago Tribune)

"A backcountry Shakespeare.... The inhabitants of Daniel Woodrell's fiction often have a streak that's not just mean but savage; yet physical violence does not dominate his books. What does dominate is a seasoned fatalism.... Woodrell has tapped into a novelist's honesty, and lucky for us, he's remorseless that way." (Los Angeles Times)

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Spot on dialogue that captures the essence of southern street smarts.

The first two novellas in this trilogy are both very funny and very gripping. I often wished I could make notes of the great expressions and putdowns. A great view into society’s lower classes.

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