{"product_id":"tomato-red-9780316206211","title":"Tomato Red","description":"\u003cb\u003eA sharp and funny addition to Daniel Woodrell's collection of \"country noir\" novels, featuring anti-hero Sammy Barlach and Jamalee Merridew, her hair tomato red with rage and ambition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the Ozarks, what you are is where you are born. If you're born in Venus Holler, you're not much. For Jamalee Merridew, Venus Holler just won't cut it. Jamalee sees her brother Jason, blessed with drop-dead gorgeous looks and the local object of female obsession, as her ticket out of town. But Jason may just be gay, and in the hills and hollows of the Ozarks that is the most dangerous and courageous thing a man could be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Enter Sammy Barlach, a loser ex-con passing through a tired nowhere on the way to a fresher nowhere. Jamalee thinks Sammy is just the kind of muscle she and Jason need.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFive of \u003cb\u003eDaniel Woodrell\u003c\/b\u003e's published novels were selected as \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Books of the Year. \u003ci\u003eTomato Red\u003c\/i\u003e won the PEN West Award for the Novel in 1999. Woodrell lives in the Ozarks near the Arkansas line with his wife, Katie Estill.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Back Bay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50668958843154,"sku":"9780316206211","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c3735bf6-5f08-470a-90bf-4816b42247d6.jpg?v=1733753551","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tomato-red-9780316206211","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}