Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2672224 in Books
• Published on: 2007-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 166 pages

Customer Reviews

Ozark Red
Ozark Red is a highly readable story about a boy and a dog. It is suitable for children as young as nine and will be interesting to readers from nine to ninety-nine. For young readers it is a straight-forward story about love for a dog, wanting to please one's parents, sibling rivalry, and teenage angst. For adults, it is a completely believable story about the love for hunting and for skilled coonhounds, pride, outrage at being cheated, and the complex relationships between husband and wife, a mother and her children, brother and sister, and a father and son. The story is set in the middle of the last century in Newark, Ohio and is semi-autobiographical. The author, Jim Woolard, lives in Newark and his father was a policeman and county dog warden who raised coonhounds. Previously, Woolard authored for books of historical fiction. Do yourself a favor and read this enjoyable book.

Synopsis of novel
Walt Hannar blames his son, Ben, for the death of his prized coonhound, Sweet Lou. Ben prays for an opportunity to regain the closeness he once enjoyed with his father. His hopes soar when his father purchases a Redbone hound from a kennel in far off Arkansas to take Sweet Lou's place. Perhaps the new coonhound will help his father forget the past and eventually forgive Ben. Ben's hopes prove short-lived. To the utter embarrassment of his father, Ozark Red, the new coonhound, runs the wrong scent and makes a fool out of his father in front of half the hunters in Licking County. Emma Jean, Ben's sister, insists that he make things right with the dog breeder that cheated their father before the whole family falls apart. Ben is dismayed. If their father, a former policeman, can't get a new hound or his money back, how could he?