Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Woe to Live On: A Novel
    Unavailable
    Woe to Live On: A Novel
    Unavailable
    Woe to Live On: A Novel
    Audiobook6 hours

    Woe to Live On: A Novel

    Written by Daniel Woodrell

    Narrated by Bernard Clark

    4/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    Set in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, WOE TO LIVE ON explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his fellow First Kansas Irregulars go, no one is safe, no one can be neutral. Roedel grows up fast, experiencing a brutal parody of war without standards or mercy. But as friends fall and families flee, he questions his loyalties and becomes an outsider even to those who have become outlaws.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJun 19, 2012
    ISBN9781611135060
    Unavailable
    Woe to Live On: A Novel

    Related to Woe to Live On

    Related audiobooks

    Literary Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      On The Shelf

      Jul 23, 2019

      Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian is set in 1989 New York City as three diverse teen friends come of age and come to terms with the AIDS crisis. Reza is a closeted Iranian immigrant fearful of having his sexuality discovered by his traditional famil

      2 min read

    • Article

      What To Read

      Jul 29, 2022

      By HAYLEY SCRIVENOR Pan Macmillan Twelve-year-old best friends Esther and Ronnie leave school together one Friday in their small Australian town, but after they part ways only one of them reaches her home. Sydney missing-person police experts Sarah

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Affliction of Identity: Chelsey Johnson’s ‘Stray City’

      Mar 20, 2018

      When Maggie Nelson appeared on San Francisco’s City Arts & Lectures circuit earlier this year, the first question she was asked was how she identifies her work, much of which masterfully blends of poetry, memoir, and critique. Nelson refused to p

      6 min read

    • Article

      Queerantine Reads

      Jun 9, 2020

      Witches of Ash and Ruin, a young adult novel by E. Latimer, is a mesmerizing story of a gifted bisexual teen’s struggle against dark forces that have arrived in her conservative Irish town. Dayna Walsh has enough problems between her somatic obsessiv

      2 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Ohlin, Adrian, Jin, and More

      Jul 27, 2021

      Our own Thom Beckwith takes a look as some notable books publishing this week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Ohlin, Adrian, Jin, and More appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Hot Off The Press

      Jan 17, 2020

      It’s great to see Robotham developing a new psychologist character. He’s hopefully moving away from Joe O’Loughlin, the star of his previous series who has no more interesting storylines left. Like Joe, Cyrus Haven is a forensic psychologist who help

      2 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Dec 15, 2023

      Books
      4 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Smith, Jones, Jemc, Dancyger, Marantz

      Oct 8, 2019

      Zadie Smith headlines a new week of new books, including essays by angry women and an excellent exploration of the rise of the online alt-right. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Smith, Jones, Jemc, Dancyger, Marantz appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Treat Your Shelf

      Nov 20, 2022

      A deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy. When Brooke moves into a share house for her first year of uni, she isn’t prepared for the lack of order or rules. But vowing to stay out of flatmate Jesse’s way ends up being much more di

      1 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Jen, Yuknavitch, Missaghi, Nemens, and More

      Feb 4, 2020

      Publishing this week: new titles from Gish Jen, Lidia Yuknavitch, Poupeh Missaghi, Emily Nemens, and more. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Jen, Yuknavitch, Missaghi, Nemens, and More appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Experiment In Self-discovery

      Feb 21, 2020

      Experiment In Self-discovery
      4 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Baxter, Reyes, and More

      Nov 17, 2020

      Here's a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Charles Baxter, Dolores Reyes, and more—that are publishing this week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Baxter, Reyes, and More appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Pointed Portrayal

      Jan 31, 2021

      In MY BEST FRIEND’S MURDER by Polly Phillips (Simon & Schuster, $35) Izzy and Bec have been best friends forever. Now Izzy is successfully married and rich and has the perfect child, Tilly – whom she doesn’t seem to like very much. She rules the perf

      2 min read

    • Article

      Great Reads

      Apr 14, 2020

      Simultaneous murders hit LA, Chicago and San Francisco. SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is tasked with uncovering what links these precise and calculated killings. Lindsay discovers that the victims all excel in lucrative, criminal activity. As the casua

      2 min read

    • Article

      Parental Guidance

      Aug 14, 2022

      Parental Guidance
      2 min read

    • Article

      Sister Act

      Oct 9, 2022

      Sister Act
      2 min read

    • Article

      Remember the Night

      Nov 4, 2022

      Remember the Night
      1 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      May 25, 2022

      What do you really know about the people you see, but never speak to? We can all make judgements – as does Iona Iverson, who gets the 8.05am train to London Waterloo every day. She even has names for her fellow commuters. Little does she know that sh

      2 min read

    Reviews for Woe to Live On

    4/5

    50 ratings5 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      My emotions want to give this book a higher rating than I did. The fact is the story is not "monumental", but it is more than worth absorbing. Many a reader may not chose to pick up this volume because it deals with Missouri bushwackers during the Civil War. Indeed it has its share of violent encounters to turn off the more squeamish. One might compare it in its own way to The Red Badge of Courage. But, folks, I'm here to tell you that this has some of the best written prose I've ever read. The author has a masterful touch in turning a phrase that is as soothing to the soul as the soft touch from a loved one, as heart-warming as the shared laugh from a good friend. For one small sample, with three of the men discussing a well-regarded young woman, one says, "She is coltish of attitude, with an ungainly gallop of spirit." Much later, when two of the men are regarding the new infant of the same young woman, one says, "Babies is something I never can believe." "What do you mean!", says the other. "Well, look at it. Do you believe that thing will shout and holler and haul water someday?" And then the other man relates to the reader in the first-person, "To realize that this little handful was actually a person is to have faith in a miracle of dimensions." This book was turned into an Ang Lee movie, "Ride With the Devil", which I have not seen, but, while I can see the dialogue coming through in the transition, I have a hard time imagining the first-person narrative will be done the justice it deserves.
    • 4/5
      Not your typical novel of the Civil War. There are no great battles--this is guerrilla warfare in Missouri and Kansas, and boy, is it a mess. Once again (although this was one of his earlier works), Woodrell has put together a story of the grainier side of the Ozarks, during the Civil War, in a state that doesn't really know what side it's on. Jake Roedel is a sixteen year old "secesh," riding with his best friend and a group of other outlaws determined to eliminate as many Federalists and Jayhawkers as they possibly can, and as brutally as they possibly can. Jake begins to question what's really important to him, but how do you escape this kind of war?Woodrell's writing is magical. He has a way of moving the story along at a pace that makes it nearly impossible to put down, even when you don't think you can handle one more description of a gunshot wound. It's rough, but worth the read. And I especially love the Runyonesque speech of these characters: "I don't know that the time is yet right for robbing wholesale" and "I think it is as right as two rabbits." None of this pretend "y'all" kind of contracted speech that you see in some Ozark books. Good stuff, this.
    • 5/5
      A little classic of Civil War guerrilla warfare in Kansas/Missouri, one of the best works of historical fiction that I own. This novel provided the screenplay for Ang Lee's very authentic, 'Ride With the Devil'... with Tobey Macquire & Jewel. Both book and film capture the atmosphere and dialog of the era. Not an easy to find book but well worth the search.
    • 5/5
      I hadn't planned on reading any Civil War books this year but I am reading all of Woodrell's works and have had this on order with my library for close to a year now. So it was a welcome surprise when it showed up with my library holds! While this is an historical fiction Civil War book it is like none I've ever read before, nor expect to ever read again. Not so much a story of the war itself as it is of a small group of southern men fighting independently as raiders, most are from southern states, a few are from neutral states and one is a black man based on a real photograph of Quantrill's Raiders. This story doesn't take anybody's side as being the right one, neither side is the courteous one. Told from the southern point of view, these men and boys fight because they believe in their cause or because it's what they want to do. As raiders they've chosen not to follow the rule of the military and are hard-knuckle folk who shoot to kill and raid for the rewards. Fresh young Jake Roedel is the main character and the story is told through his eyes. Jake learns to kill, lynch, shoot in the back, raid and pillage all because if he doesn't first, "they" will. At some point he realises that "they", the Yanks, are no different than him in a human way but also no different in that if he doesn't shoot first he'll drop dead first. There is no honour among killers. The black man, Holt, plays a strange role in the story first belonging to one of the men but in an equal relationship with him and then actually befriending our young Jake. The N-word is used superfluously until by the end of the book one has become desensitized to it. There is blatant racial prejudice and at other times as Jake and Holt become friends, between them Holt will always be the n-, but it is as if it were left-handedness rather than race that makes them "different" in Jake's eye, but Holt himself knows his identity is bound up in his race even when it comes to friendship. A very real book, written as if of the time period. The author holds back on nothing never trying to appease political correctness, the south or the north. The attitudes are all here as they were back in the 1860s. A brutish, hard, difficult story that does not end without some redemption and hope for its characters. A fine piece of writing.
    • 4/5
      Living in a community where we celebrate Bushwhacker Days, I have been wanting to read this novel for a long time but have not been able to find it. The movie is excellent; the book is gripping and raw.Daniel Woodrell does not editorialize or put thoughts into the characters' minds. He merely presents events without embellishment; the reader can decide what to think. I believe this is probably one of the best descriptions of the lawlessness and violence that accompanied the Civil War -- violence without cause or belief to justify it.To my grandmother, who was borm just after the Civil War, the worst thing you could call someone was to call them a Bushwhacker. I understand why. Woodrell does an excellent job in painting a pretty ugly picture.