The Bayou Trilogy - Daniel Woodrell Audiobook

Written by Daniel Woodrell
Read by Bronson Pinchot
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do

Series: Rene Shade
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: April 26, 2011
Duration: 15:02:55

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 critic alike.

“An exciting and well-crafted series of adventures takes listeners into the culture of the Louisiana Delta. It’s a place one hopes doesn’t exist–populated by a collection of knaves and heroes (light on the heroes). Bronson Pinchot lays the Cajun drawls on thick and the idiomatic patois thicker. His often-outrageous exaggeration of the characters works, though occasionally one has difficulty differentiating them. However, his pacing and ability to amplify the narrative line and the characters’ passions are nothing short of amazing. He renders the irony and humor–some of it of a decidedly regional flavor–like a native.”—AudioFile