Daniel Woodrell: Give Us a Kiss

From the Publisher:
'I was on the drift from California to someplace that didn't have any bench warrants out on me...'

Doyle Redmond is on the drift from a failed marriage and a floundering life, moving in an easterly direction in the Volvo he stole from his soon-to-be-ex-wife, heading for home: the red and rocky soil of the Ozarks where Redmonds have been farming and fighting since just after the Civil War.

Daniel Woodrell: Give Us a Kiss. No Exit Press, ISBN: 1874061645 (January, 1997), 256 p., £6.99