Ron Hansen - The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (epub) - PleX

Summary


One of the great classic tales of The Great American West...IT IS 1881. Jesse James, at the age of 34, is at the height of his fame and powers as a singularly successful outlaw. Robert Ford is the skittish younger brother of one of the James gang: he has made himself an expert on the gang, but his particular interest - his obsession - is Jesse James himself. Both drawn to him and frightened of him, the nineteen-year-old is uncertain whether he wants to serve James or destroy him or, somehow, become him.Never have these two men been portrayed and their saga explored with such poetry, such grim precision and such raw-boned feeling as Ron Hansen has brought to this masterful retelling.'Wonderful. This is great storytelling, not undermined by our knowin how it turns out. The reader is driven - by story and by language and by history... the best blend of fiction and history I've read in a long while!' -- John Irving, author of The World According to Garp






Title: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford


Author(s): Ron Hansen


Published February 26th 1997 by Harper Perennial (first published January 1st 1983)


Language: English


Length: Paperback, 320 pages








Awards:
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1984)









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