Brendan Wolf Author:Brian Malloy Who is Brendan Wolf? It all depends on who you ask. — To the staff of a Minneapolis nursing home, he's the devoted partner of a much older man who's recently suffered a debilitating stroke. — To the women of a conservative, Christian pro-life organization, he's the tireless volunteer grieving over the recent loss of his wife and their unborn child... more ».
To one gay activist, he's the unaffectedly charming, yet directionless and?unemployed man that he's fallen hopelessly in love with
To his brother and his brother's wife, he's the lynchpin of a scam that will net them enough money to start their lives over somewhere new.
To the general public, he's an armed and dangerous fugitive
All of these?people - and yet none of them - are correct. Brendan?Wolf is?an ambivalent lover, reluctant conspirator, counterfeit Christian, and, most of all, an unemployed daydreamer obsessed with a dead man.
From the author of the award-winning The Year of Ice,?this is a tour-de-force - a compelling, hilarious, heart-breaking novel about one utterly typical, and completely original, figure:? Brendan Wolf.« less