The Death and Life of Strother Purcell

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Publication Year:
2018

ISBN-13: 9781773100302

<p><b>The man, the myth, the one-eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy.</b></p><p>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&#39;s true-life story. All it requires is a final act…</p><p>What unfolds is an archetypal saga of obsession, lost love, treachery, and revenge, told in Ian Weir&#39;s trademark funny, fast, wickedly intelligent style. A deadpan revisionist Western, refracted through a Southern Gothic revenge tragedy, <i>The Death and Life of Strother Purcell</i> 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.</p>