The Ballad Of Lee Cotton by Christopher Wilson
From his Icelandic father Lee Cotton gets his marble skin and blue eyes. From his mixed-race mother he gains his black identity. From his Mambo grandmother he inherits forebodings about his future. It's a combination that sets Lee apart from the other black kids growing up in Eureka, Mississippi. It marks Lee out as slightly odd. And very white. If childhood was confusing, adolescence proves life changing when Lee falls in love with the sublime Angelina. It's also life threatening: Angel's father is a freelance shooter for the Klan, who doesn't take kindly to his daughter's boyfriend. An act of appalling violence leaves Lee far from home with a new identity, a draft card, a memory that operates in flashback and a mental illness that makes him a sort of genius. He also has a reputation, back home, for being dead. Nobody (except possibly his grandmother) could envisage that Lee's rebirth is a headstart and not a handicap. His role in a quite remarkable journey through life will be to transform others as he has transformed himself...
"Wilson has achieved top-rank status among this country's novelists' Nicholas Lezard, GUARDIAN
Christopher Wilson has been longlisted for The Booker Prize (BLUEGLASS) and shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award (MISCHIEF). He is a semiotician (advises companies on the language they use to advertise themselves). He did a PHD on jokes at the LSE.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316730266 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316730262 |
| Title | The Ballad Of Lee Cotton |
| Author | Christopher Wilson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown & Company |
| Year published | 2005-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 2005 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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