The Death and Life of Strother Purcell Format:Paperback  9781773100296  $22.95 the University of Windsor

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The Death and Life of Strother Purcell Format:Paperback  9781773100296  $22.95 the University of WindsorThe man, the myth, the one eyed legend: a frontier epic for fans of Ron Rash and Cormac McCarthy. 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.