Book description
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. A
collection of muscular short stories
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 London.
