The Swansong of Wilbur McCrum
  • Published:
    Sep-2009 (Hardcover)
    Sep-2011 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    360
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Wilbur McCrum has always been a drifter. Abandoned by his parents, one after the other, and subsequently passed from pillar to post, he was still a young lad when he first took to the road, and somehow he's never settled anywhere since. When he meets Ida May, however, that looks set to change: finally, Wilbur's dream of making a home, a family, and a future for himself, looks set to become reality. But fate's a funny old thing, and Wilbur never has had much luck . . .

'With a hugely likeable narrator, and a narrative that gallops along at the breakneck pace of a runaway steer, I loved the energy of the writing, and the way the world of the Wild West is painted so clearly in swift, deft strokes. A terrific and unusual voice' Kate Long

'Kita's gold-rush setting incorporates all the dusty heroism of the Wild West. But Wilbur McCrum is the book's truly unforgettable element. His folksy speech and wry humour are engaging and unrelenting, taking the reader from a troubled childhood to an old age of reminiscence. Few first novels have employed imaginative freedom and picaresque invention with such aplomb' Waterstone's Books Quarterly
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    •  
    • Sep-2011
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0330465090
    • ISBN13: 9780330465090
    •  
    • Oct-2014
    • Picador
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1447280946
    • ISBN13: 9781447280941
    • First Edition
    • Sep-2009
    • Picador (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0330465082
    • ISBN13: 9780330465083
    •  
    • Nov-2010
    • Pan Books (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0330506129
    • ISBN13: 9780330506120
    •  
    • Nov-2010
    • Picador
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1743292988
    • ISBN13: 9781743292983



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