Shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008.
The story of a man with a low IQ, who see’s the world in kind and simple terms, winning 12 million on the Lottery and learning that the world about him does not share his moral compass. Funny, sad and enchanting.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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Perry’s IQ is only 76, but he’s not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know to survive: She taught him to write things down so he won’t forget them. She taught him to play the lottery every week. And most important, she taught him whom to trust. When Gram dies, Perry is left orphaned and bereft at the age of thirty-one. Then he wins twelve million dollars with his weekly Washington State Lottery ticket, and he finds he has more family than he knows what to do with. Peopled with characters both wicked and heroic who leap off the pages, Lottery is a deeply satisfying, gorgeously rendered novel about trust, loyalty, and what distinguishes us as capable.
Lottery features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Debut Books of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Lottery is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook,
Lottery was written by Patricia Wood and published by Arrow Books Ltd
