Daniel Woodrell: Give Us a Kiss (USA 2012)

From the Publisher:
"My imagination is always skulking about in a wrong place." And now Doyle Redmond, thirty-five-year-old nowhere writer, has crossed the line between imagination and real live trouble. On the lam in his soon-to-be ex-wife's Volvo, he's running a family errand back in his boyhood home of West Table, Missouri -- the heart of the red-dirt Ozarks. The law wants his big brother, Smoke, on a felony warrant, and Doyle's supposed to talk him into giving up. But Smoke is hunkered down in the hills with his partner, Big Annie, and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Niagra, making other plans: they're about to harvest a profitable patch of homegrown marijuana.

Doyle takes just one look at Niagra's flattering red boots before joining his brother's scheme. Of course it means dealing with the law and maybe worse -- the Dollys. A legendary clan of largely criminal persuasion, the Dollys have been feuding with the Redmonds for generations. Now they want a piece of Smoke's cash crop, even if it means killing to get it. Doyle is fast realizing that yes, you can always put the country back in the boy... but sometimes that's not smart.

Daniel Woodrell: Give Us a Kiss. A Novel. Foreword by Pinckney Benedict. Back Bay Books, ISBN: 9780316206204 (June, 2012), 194 p., $14.99.

Daniel Woodrell: Give Us a Kiss (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
Doyle Redmond, drifting through life and escaping from a failed marriage, heads for his family home in the Ozarks to find his brother and ends up in the middle of a blood feud between the Dolly clan and his own family...

Daniel Woodrell: Give Us a Kiss. A Country Noir. Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671025031 (August, 1998), 194 p., $14.00.

Daniel Woodrell: Give Us a Kiss (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
'I was on the drift from California to someplace that didn't have any bench warrants out on me...'

Doyle Redmond is on the drift from a failed marriage and a floundering life, moving in an easterly direction in the Volvo he stole from his soon-to-be-ex-wife, heading for home: the red and rocky soil of the Ozarks where Redmonds have been farming and fighting since just after the Civil War.

Daniel Woodrell: Give Us a Kiss. A Country Noir. No Exit Press, ISBN: 1874061645 (January, 1997), 237 p., £10.00.