Wiseman’s Wager
a new novel by
DaveMargoshes
from Coteau Books, Regina, SK, Canada
Zan Wiseman: in his own words, a “failed novelist. You might say I made a success of failure, a whole career of it. I did lots of other things – to make a living, to keep alive, you do anything, whatever comes along, whatever you have to, teacher sometimes, bee-keeper sometimes, believe it or not, mostly as a machinist, a pretty good one, too. But they don’t count. Novelist, that’s the noun. Failed, that’s the adjective. And not just novelist either – failed husband, failed son, failed brother, failed friend, failed Communist … you name it, I failed at it. Failed, that’s the operative word.”
One thing Zan is good at, though, is spinning yarns, and through the pages of Wiseman’s Wager…
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