The Death and Life of Strother Purcell

✍ Scribed by Ian Weir

• Book ID: 100597499
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 341 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Colombie-Britannique, San Francisco (Calif.
• ISBN: 1773100319

✦ Synopsis

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 – derelict, homeless and one-eyed – 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 act...

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.

✦ Subjects

San Francisco (Calif.) -- Romans, nouvelles, etc