Stories of enduring friendships and close family ties form the heart of Death of a King. Often hilarious, and as fresh as the day they were written, these stories delicately but potently reveal their characters' lives in all their toughness and tenderness
Stories of enduring friendships and close family ties form this collection. When a gypsy king dies, his villagers seek to save him from a dishonorable grave. The dispute over the inheritance of a well becomes a struggle between the old and the new for the ownership of their town. A terrier pup reveals the relationship between a poacher and gamekeeper. A seasoned drinker subverts' the 'dry' policy of a train on pilgrimage. An old man puts on his best suit for this own wake, telling his family he will be dead by nightfall.
