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    Brendan Wolf: A Novel

    By Brian Malloy

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    Who is Brendan Wolf? It all depends on who you ask.

    * To the staff of a Minneapolis nursing home, he's the devoted partner of a much older man who's recently suffered a debilitating stroke.

    * To the women of a conservative, Christian pro-life organization, he's the tireless volunteer grieving over the recent loss of his wife and their unborn child.

    * To one gay activist, he's the unaffectedly charming, yet directionless and unemployed man that he's fallen hopelessly in love with

    * To his brother and his brother's wife, he's the lynchpin of a scam that will net them enough money to start their lives over somewhere new.

    * To the general public, he's an armed and dangerous fugitive

    All of these people - and yet none of them - Brendan Wolf is an ambivalent lover, reluctant conspirator, counterfeit Christian, and, most of all, an unemployed daydreamer obsessed with a dead man.
    From the author of the award-winning The Year of Ice, this is a tour-de-force - a compelling, hilarious, heart-breaking novel about one utterly typical, and completely original, figure: Brendan Wolf.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateNov 19, 2013
    ISBN9781466857162
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    Brendan Wolf: A Novel
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    Brian Malloy

    Brian Malloy is the author of the novels The Year of Ice, Brendan Wolf, and Twelve Long Months. His books have been a BookSense pick and a New York Times new and notable title; have won the Minnesota Book Award and the American Library Association’s Alex Award, and been shortlisted for the Violet Quill Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT fiction. He received his MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and teaches creative writing at a variety of universities, arts organizations, social service agencies, and correctional facilities.  

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      I read INTO THE WOODS a while back and wondered, "Who would envy Alexander Supertramp?" Brendan Wolf is that guy. He's full of hope but constantly making bad choices, just like his hero. This was a very compelling read. I stayed up too late to find out what would happen next.