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Ken Wells
Junior's
Leg
A Novel
"One of the
most compelling voices in fiction of the last decade" (Los
Angeles Times Book Review) takes us back to the bayou in this darkly
hilarious tale of a bully, his come-uppance, and his one last chance at
redemption.
Fifteen
years after he tormented fellow students at Catahoula Bayou School,
Junior Guidry is broke, drunk, one-legged, and living in a wreck of a
trailer on the edge of a snake-infested swamp. He's survived an
oil-rig accident that would've killed most men but, with the help of a
good lawyer, made him rich instead. But he's squandered his
fortune on drink, blackjack, womanizing, and brawling, leaving a wake of
wrecked cars and friendships, not to mention lost or stolen wooden
legs. Then the mysterious Iris Mary Parfait enters his life.
She's on the run from a tragic childhood and a bad, bad man. When
news reaches Junior that a bar owner with Mob connections has posted a
$100,000 bounty on Iris's head because she knows too much about him,
Junior realizes he could regain his fortune- but at what cost?
Narrated
in Junior's unvarnished voice, Junior's Leg takes the reader on a
singular journey through the mind of a troubled man. It is at
turns unsettling, ribald, sexy, and poignant- a bold stroke of
storytelling that ultimately plumbs the possibilities of love and
redemption, even for as unlikely a candidate as Junior.
Ken
Wells, author of Meely LaBauve, is a senior writer and
features editor for page one of The Wall Street Journal. In 1982,
as a journalist at The Miami Herald, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer
Prize. He lives with his family outside Manhattan.
Ken Wells grew up in Bayou
Black, Louisiana. For more about the author, browse this site...
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Nashville, Memphis, Austin, Houston
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Meely LaBauve
cloth: 0-375-50311-0 (Random House)
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