The Milk Chicken Bomb

by Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn and Andrew Wedderburn

Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Shortlisted for the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award The kid sells lemonade. Not a lot of people buy lemonade, especially now that it's winter, but the kid makes good lemonade, even if his friend Mullen thinks it ought to be sweeter. They don't talk much with the other ten-year-olds -- mostof the others are Dead Kids anyway. Except for Jenny Tierney, but she's busy breaking kids' faces with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552451801
• ISBN13: 9781552451809
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The Secret Life of Boys

In "The Milk Chicken Bomb," Wedderburn mixes boyish wonderment with small-town torpor in a way that is by turns funny, heartbreaking and mysterious. The narrative builds through a disparate series of events, featuring a cast of characters as colorful as the Alberta prairie is bleak. Mixed throughout are the super-hero dream sequences and mischievous deeds of the troubled young narrator. All the while something is bubbling just below the surface, much like the title's foul (fowl?) munition.