Benediction / Olivier Dufault ; translated by Pablo Strauss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dufault, Olivier, author.

Contributor:

Strauss, Pablo, translator.

Standardized Title:

Bénédiction. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

James, Will, 1892-1942--Fiction.

James, Will.

James, Will, 1892-1942.

Genre:

Biographical fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

389 pages : illustration ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

[Toronto] : Arachnide, 2019.

Language Note:

Originally published in French with the title: Bénédiction.

Translated from the French.

Summary:

"In 1907 fifteen-year-old Ernest Dufault left Quebec for Montana, where he passed himself off as an American cowboy named Will James. Over the next few decades, Ernest would be a cattle thief, a soldier, a Hollywood stuntman, and a bestselling and award-winning writer of westerns. Ernest was so successful an imposter that he was later inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners. His own wife would only learn his true identity after his death at fifty, when he bequeathed his entire estate to a man she has never heard of, Ernest Dufault. In Benediction, Ernest's relative Olivier Dufault uncovers the true story of his two years in a Nevada prison for stealing cattle. Using real documents, including letters, telegrams, and court documents, mixed with his inimitable novelistic style, Olivier reconstructs an incredible life where truth and lies were almost indistinguishable."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"First published as Bénédiction in 2017 by Marchand de Feuilles"--Title page verso.

"First published in English in 2019 by House of Anansi Press Inc."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 388-389).

Other Format:

Online version: Dufault, Olivier. Bénédiction. English. Benediction.

ISBN:

9781487005993

1487005997

OCLC:

1085573399