I grow up rural with flies delta dust forebodings and a shovel for mycallused hands Born to an Icelandic father and a black mother Lee Cotton growsup and extrao... » 

I grow up rural with flies delta dust forebodings and a shovel for mycallused hands Born to an Icelandic father and a black mother Lee Cotton growsup and extraordinary boy with extraordinary gifts. His story is one of themost unusual you will ever read...Make sure you lay your hands on a copy ofThe Ballad of Lee Cotton. Youre unlikely to read a more effervescent moreuplifting more original novel this year...brilliantly conceived wonderfullywritten heartstoppingly involving it propels our hero into a picaresque lifeso remarkable you are left agog at the writers imagination and skill. Time andagain during this novel I let out a figurative gasp at what Wilson was tryingto pull off only to be amazed that he managed it and with such panache. Itis apparent that few of Wilsons contemporaries can match him for sheerstorytelling inventiveness Martyn Bedford Literary Review «