The death and life of Strother Purcell / Ian Weir.
Publication details: Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions, 2018.Description: 389 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9781773100296
- C813/.54 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | Hanover Public Library Shelves | FIC WEIR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001119180 |
The man, the myth, the gun-toting legend. A frontier epic for fans of Ron Rush and Cormac McCarty. Strother Purcell had attained notoriety in his own time, but his fame - or infamy - had largely died with him. A gunman whose prowess echoed through the American frontier and whose blood-feud with his own half-brother was nearly biblical in proportion, little remains of the saga of one of America's most notorious gunslingers. That is, until a long-lost foundational epic, tucked between the pages of a misfiled library book, is discovered nearly a century later: The Purcelliad. What unfolds is an archetypal saga of obsession, treachery, lost love, murder and revenge-and that's just the academic research -told in Ian Weir's trademark funny, fast, wickedly intelligent style. A deadpan revisionist Western and a tale of academic skullduggery, The Death and Life of Strother Purcell is a novel about the power of the past... and the lengths we'll go to in order to invent it.
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