The Bayou Trilogy: Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do - Tapa blanda

"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

"There's poetry in Woodrell's mayhem, each novel-and scene-full of gritty and memorable Cajun details."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Really cool . . . Jump on these three top-shelf books."--Library Journal

"The Bayou Trilogy is more than a landmark of crime fiction; it is an impressive and important addition to American letters. Bravo, Daniel Woodrell, and long live Rene Shade."--PulpSerenade.com

"What people say about Cormac McCarthy . . . goes double for [Woodrell]. Possibly more."--New York Magazine

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

"Daniel Woodrell writes in sentences that could be ancient carvings on a tree."--Chicago Tribune

"Woodrell is the least-known major writer in the country right now."--Dennis Lehane, USA Today

"Daniel Woodrell has quietly built a career that whould be the envy of most American novelists today."--Washington Times

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.