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Winner, Spur Award for Best Traditional Novel and Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize
An offbeat, slightly magical, entirely original retelling of Aladdin as an American western.
Francis Blackstone is a teenage gunslinger with a heart of gold. He’s fallen for the governor’s daughter and resolves to win her favour. And what better way than to rob a Manhattan Company bank?
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“Like Rum-Drunk Angels wrings a variation on the American Western which is entirely unique — saucy, funny, warm, tender, unbridled. It’s a breakneck gallop of a book, as fine a novel as I have read in a long time.” — Wayne Johnston, author of First Snow, Last Light
“Tyler Enfield opens a treasure chest of familiar Western tropes, turns them upside down and inside out, and makes them dance. Funny, absurd, wildly inventive, and then — just as you’re least prepared for it — deeply moving. Magic.” — Ian Weir, author of The Death and Life of Strother Purcell
“Employing traits from the playbooks of both the Coen Brothers and Walt Disney, this Western stars 14-year-old gunslinger Francis Blackstone on a journey to make his fortune and win a young lady’s heart. A buddy-novel with bandits, bank robbing and adventure a-plenty.”, Globe and Mail
“More complex than a simple western outlaw gang horse opera. … There is plenty of humour and the whole year-long escapade takes on a dream-like aspect as in the anything-can-happen, even the impossible — which does.” — James M. Fisher, Miramichi Reader
“Like Rum-Drunk Angels turns the historically mundane into the psychedelically evocative, and the far less mundane into something even more grandiose.” — Charlotte Simmons, Town Crier
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