Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction, the Roger's Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, and the Stephen Leacock Medal. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Sotiabank Giller Prize, and the Walter Scott Prize. In this award - winning No. 1 national bestseller, Patrick deWitt spins a violent, lustful, hung - over, and humorous odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier.