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    Once You Break a Knuckle: Stories
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    Once You Break a Knuckle: Stories

    By D. W. Wilson

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    In the remote Kootenay Valley in western Canada, good people sometimes do bad things. Two bullied adolescents sabotage a rope swing, resulting in another boy's death. A heartbroken young man chooses not to warn his best friend about an approaching car. Sons challenge fathers and break taboos.

    Crackling with tension and propelled by jagged, cutting dialogue, D.W. Wilson's stories reveal to us how our best intentions can be doomed to fail or injure, how our loves can fall short or mislead us, how even friendship - especially friendship - can be something dangerously temporary. An intoxicating cocktail of adrenaline and vulnerability, doggedness and dignity, Once You Break a Knuckle explores the courage it takes just to make it through another day.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateApr 12, 2012
    ISBN9781408830291
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    Once You Break a Knuckle: Stories
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    D. W. Wilson

    D. W. Wilson was born and raised in the small towns of the Kootenay Valley, British Columbia. He is the recipient of the University of East Anglia's inaugural Man Booker Prize Scholarship - the most prestigious award available to students in the MA programme. His stories have appeared in literary magazines across Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and 'The Dead Roads' won the BBC National Short Story Award in 2011. He lives in Cambridge. Once You Break a Knuckle, his debut story collection, was published by Bloomsbury in 2012. It was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. His debut novel, Ballistics, will be published by Bloomsbury in August 2013.

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      D.W. Wilson's first collection of short stories is uneven but a thoroughly enjoyable and instructive read. Wilson uses a variety of voices and perspectives about men of different ages to tell stories all set in Invermere, British Columbia. The strongest stories in this collection have the voice of Will Crease, my favorite was "Reception," Wilson weaves a beautiful picture of rural living in B.C. combined with an emotionally charged relationship between father and son. Some stories don't have this strength of voice and come across a bit flat, or are too crammed with comparisons to the point of distraction. I'd recommend giving it a read, after a while you start to think it might actually might not be a bad idea to drink Kokanee, and that itself is an achievement.