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Title: |
The Death and Life of Strother Purcell |
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| By (author): |
Ian Weir |
| ISBN10-13: |
1773100297 : 9781773100296 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
392 |
| Weight: |
.530 Kg. |
| Published: |
Goose Lane Editions - September 2018 |
| List Price: |
17.99 Pounds Sterling |
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No Sales Rights
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| The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy.In 1876, the fabled lawman Strother Purcell disappears into a winter storm in the mountains of British Columbia, while hunting down his outlawed half-brother. Sixteen years later, the wreck of Purcell resurfaces â derelict, homeless and one-eyed â in a San Francisco jail cell. And a failed journalist named Barrington Weaver conceives a grand redemptive plan. He will write Purcell's true-life story. All it requires is a final actâ ¦What unfolds is an archetypal saga of obsession, lost love, treachery, and revenge, told in Ian Weir's trademark funny, fast, wickedly intelligent style. A deadpan revisionist Western, refracted through a Southern Gothic revenge tragedy, The Death and Life of Strother Purcell is a novel about two cursed brothers, a pair of eldritch orphans, the vexed nature of truth, and the yearnings of that treacherous sonofabitch the human heart. |
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