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Like Rum-Drunk Angels
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerWesternsLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $26.00
ISBN13: 9781773101309
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: Mar 3 2020
Pages: 440
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.30 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Winner, Spur Award for Best Western Traditional Novel
Winner, Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
Longlisted, Leacock Medal for Humour
Francis Blackstone is a fourteen-year-old gunslinger with a heart of gold.
He's fallen for the governor's daughter and resolves to make his mark, and his fortune, to win her favour. And what better way than to rob a Manhattan Company bank? Enter Bob Temple, the volatile outlaw who takes Francis under his wing-- though not without a degree of suspicion-- and so begins the adventures of the Blackstone Temple Gang as they crisscross the west in search of treasure, redemption, and the possibility of requited love.
After an encounter with a rival gang, Francis and Bob Temple are chased over the Sierras to California, where they enjoy unexpected fame as gentleman bandits. But their newfound celebrity brings hardships as well, and when their final job takes a startling turn, Francis is forced to discover what it means to make peace with a world that stands against him.
At once a tribute to boyhood enthusiasm and the heroes of classical quests, Like Rum-Drunk Angels is an offbeat, slightly magical, entirely original retelling of Aladdin as an American western.
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