# The Outlaw Album

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- Book: [The Outlaw Album](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-woodrell/the-outlaw-album) ([The Outlaw Album.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-woodrell/the-outlaw-album.md))
- Authors: [Daniel Woodrell](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-woodrell)
- Publisher: sceptre
- ISBN: 978-14-4473-578-9
- Published: 2012-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Daniel Woodrell is able to lend uncanny logic to harsh, even criminal, behaviour in his wrenching first collection of short fiction. Desperation - both material and psychological - motivates his characters. A husband cruelly avenges the murder of his wife's pet; an injured rapist is cared for by a young girl, until she reaches breaking point; a disturbed veteran of Iraq is murdered for his erratic behaviour; an outsider's house is set on fire by an angry neighbour. There is also the tenderness and loyalty of the vulnerable in these stories - between spouses, parents and children, siblings and comrades in arms - which brings the troubled, sorely tested cast of characters to vivid, relatable life.