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Woodrell has earned himself a piece of immortality - George P. ''The Death of Sweet Mister'' triumphs in the acuity of its psychological insight into the lethal manifestations of incestuous jealousy. Put it on the shelf alongside Faulkner, Jim Thompson, and Cormac McCarthy. It broke my heart - Dennis Lehane The Death Of Sweet Mister triumphs in the acuity of its psychological insight into the lethal manifestations of incestuous jealousy.Woodrell is one of the most intense and accomplished practitioners since Jim Thompson ― New York Times Daniel Woodrell's The Death Of Sweet Mister is nakedly honest, unsettling, pitch perfect, and uniquely American. With The Death Of Sweet Mister, Daniel Woodrell has written his masterpiece - spare, dark, and incandescently beautiful. is spot-on, a bad-trip version of the coming-of-age story that shows a real understanding of human pain and violence - Chris Petit ― The Guardian I can't remember coming across a more precise evocation of innocence lost since Golding's The Lord of the Flies. Probably Woodrell's most fully realised and most intelligent character yet - Paul Connolly ― The Times The Death of Sweet Mister.
