Winter's Bone: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Daniel Woodrell


Winter's Bone is a novel that follows 17-year-old Ree Dolly, a poor , who lives with her father in the Ozark mountains. Ree was not raised by her mother and never knew her, so she says good-bye to them before they pack up and leave on one of their many moving truck routes. The novel opens with Ree waiting outside the local courthouse for her father to be released from jail for the third time in three years—this time for burying a body in their backyard. But after a few days of living on the street, Ree decides to come back home and live off of what money she still has left. She sees this as an opportunity to prove herself as a fighter.

Winter's Bone is a dark and disturbing novel that follows Ree Dolly, a girl who has lived in poverty for most of her life. At the age of 19, she found out about her father's cancer diagnosis and decided to take off on her own. Her father was a meth cook at the time. He passed away before he could get any treatment. Now, Ree lives in her father's cabin with her two dogs and goes to school nearby. She tries to make a living by pelting rocks at cars that pass by outside of the cabin so they will stop to help her collect them as payment. One day when going through an old dresser, she finds a bottle of meth hidden inside with $7,000 inside of it. The money gives Ree the opportunity to start over with nothing but the clothes on her back and put herself in a better situation.

"The novel follows Ree Dolly, a young girl struggling with poverty and mental illness. Her father has been out of work for years, but he could still get claim to the land if he stayed on it long enough. However, he is a hopeless drunk who keeps getting kicked off the land. With nowhere else to turn, Ree Dolly turns to her mother's sister for help."

Winter's Bone is a novel about Jean McGowan and her desperate struggle to care for her mentally ill mother. When Jean is 11-years-old, she cares for her mother who has been neglected by her abusive father. After her father dies unexpectedly, the family struggles to stay afloat in the harsh Ozarks Mountains. This is one of the most difficult years of Jean's life, but it is not without its tiny moments of happiness. One night after weeks of trying to make ends meet on what little money they have, she watches a horror movie that leads to a moment of unexpected freedom for her and her mother.

In Daniel Woodrell's novel, Winter's Bone, the main character is 16-year-old Ree Dolly. She lives in a ramshackle house with her mother, who is addicted to methamphetamines and has been arrested for welfare fraud. When the girl's father dies from a hunting accident, she has no one but her mother to turn to for support--until she sees a man in her garden that night.

Published Date 2010-07-20
Duration 5 hours 0 minutes
Author Daniel Woodrell
Narrated Emma Galvin
Reviews
(11 Reviews)
Abridged No
Is It Free? 30-days Free
Category Mystery, Thriller & Horror
Parent Category Suspense, Coming of Age, General

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