Rabbit Foot Bill

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A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends alocal outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story.Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, alonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local outsider, a man known asRabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompanyhim as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling. Being with Bill is everything to young Leonard—anescape from school, bullies and a hard father. So his shock is absolute when hewitnesses Bill commit a sudden violent act and loses him to prison.Fifteen years on, as a newly graduated doctorof psychiatry, Leonard arrives at the Weyburn Mental Hospital, both excited andintimidated by the massive institution known for its experimental LSD trials.To Leonard’s great surprise, at the Weyburn he is reunited with Bill and soonbecomes fixated on discovering what happened on that fateful day in 1947.Based on a true story, this page-turning novelfrom a master stylist examines the frailty and resilience of the human mind. Show more