Winter in the Blood

Virgil First Raise, awaking from an ethylic coma, returns home only to find that his wife, Agnes, has left him. Worse, she’s taken his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to town to find her— or perhaps just the gun— beginning a hi-line odyssey of inebriated and improbable intrigues with the mysterious Airplane Man. Virgil’s quest also brings him face-to-face with childhood memories, traumas and visions of his long lost brother Mose.