ISBN: 9781743292983
Format: Ebook
Pub Date: 01/08/2009
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post C 1945)
Imprint: Picador
Price: $9.99
Wilbur McCrum is not a lucky man. Actually, he's not lucky, period - a fact that becomes obvious from the moment he first emerges, screaming, into the world - for Wilbur's birth coincides with his sister's death. And as Wilbur (prone to fits and with a pathological fear of cows) grows, he subsequently loses his father, and is then in turn lost - abandoned - by his mother. Dispossessed and passed from pillar to post, he's eventually left with no choice but to take to the road, the wind at his back and "lucky" potato in his pocket. As he searches for a place he can call home - somewhere far away from cows - he encounters madmen, conmen, wenches and whores; embarks on a career robbing stagecoaches (initially unwittingly); falls in love, and into a well; escapes bounty hunters and body snatchers; and, erm, becomes a librarian.
Author Information
Bronia Kita has won various prizes for her writing – including the Mail on Sunday Novel Competition in 2000, which is what initially persuaded her to switch from writing short stories to longer fiction – and recently completed an MA in Creative Writing. The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum is her first novel. She lives in London.
MORE ABOUT
Bronia Kita
DOWNLOAD COVER IMAGE
