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Meet Ree Dolly — not since Mattie Ross stormed her way through Arkansas in True Grit has a young girl so fiercely defended her loved ones. Sixteen-year-old Ree Dolly has grown up in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks and belongs to a large extended family. On a bitterly cold day, Ree, who takes... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Ree Dolly: Ree is a teenage girl living in the Ozarks and is forced to fend for her little brothers and crazy mother when her father goes missing when out on bail. She is determined and wise beyond her years.
- Teardrop Dolly: Ree's uncle, a drug dealer with criminal ties; he scares Ree
- Gail Lockrum: Ree's best friend from school
- Harold: Ree's youngest brother
- Jessup Dolly: Ree's father, a meth cooker out on bail.
- Sonny: Ree's younger brother
- Sonya: Ree's neighbor, a relation, that helps Ree's family out
- Baskin: A cop searching for Ree's father
- Merab: Thump Milton's wife
- Mamaw: Ree's dead grandmother
- Dollys: Add a description of this character.
- Ned: Gail's baby
- Blond Milton: Ree's neighbor and relation
- Mike Satterfield: Bounty hunter looking for Ree's father.
- Hawkfall
- Betsy
- Reid
- Buster Leroy Dolly
- Floyd: Gail's husband after she gets pregnant
- Heather Powney: Floyd's high school sweetheart
- Aunt Bernadette
- Jack
- Mrs. Thump
- Thump Milton: Head of the clan at Hawkfall
- Grandad Bromont
- Victoria: Teardrop's wife #5 and exwife #3
- Mr. Egan
- Little Arthur: One of Jessup's crank-cooking friends
- Tilly
- Megan: a girl Ree meets in Hawkfall
- Permelia
- Catfish Milton
- John
- Spider Milton
- Uncle Teardrop
Quotes edit
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“The shotgun felt like an unspent lightning bolt in her hands and trembled.”
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“Ned gurgled and goo-gooed, opened his eyes slow as a school day and closed them at the same pace.”
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“Long, dark and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.”
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“Jessup was a broken-faced, furtive man given to uttering quick pleading promises that made it easier for him to walk out the door and be gone, or come back inside and be forgiven.”
About Ree's father
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Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.
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One night is forgot like a fart, two like a pang, but after three nights lain together there is a hurt, and to soothe the hurt there will be night four, and five, and nights unnumbered. The heart’s in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.
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“Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.”
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Ree’s grand hope was that these boys would not be dead to wonder by age twelve, dulled to life, empty of kindness, boiling with mean.
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Gail had a baby named Ned who was four months old, and a new look of baffled hurt, a left-behind sadness, like she saw that the great world kept spinning onward and away while she’d overnight become glued to her spot.
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“Nobody here wants to be awful,” he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. “It’s just nobody here knows all the rules yet, and that makes a rocky time.”
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Like most fights that never finished it had to’ve started with a lie. A big man and a lie.
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Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they’d get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in a while and a nosebleed or bruised breast might result. But it just seemed proof that a great foulness was afoot in the world when a no-strings roll in the hay with a stranger led to chipped teeth or cigarette burns on the wrist.
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Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.
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Ree needed often to inject herself with pleasant sounds, stab those sounds past the constant screeching, squalling hubbub regular life raised inside her spirit, poke the soothing sounds past that racket and down deep where her jittering soul paced on a stone slab in a gray room, agitated and endlessly provoked but yearning to hear something that might bring a moment’s rest.
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First Sentence edit
Ree Dolly stood at break of day on her cold from steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Daniel Woodrell (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
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Publication Date: 2006
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Page Count: 208
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Publication Date: 2006
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Page Count: 208
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- Dewey: 813.54
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- Winter's Bone (IMDb): 2010 Oscar-nominated film starring Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes.
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