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News of the World: A Novel
Paulette Jiles
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Description for News of the World: A Novel
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 646.
National Book Award Finalist-Fiction It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued ... Read more
National Book Award Finalist-Fiction It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780062409201
SKU
V9780062409201
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Ref
99-15
About Paulette Jiles
Paulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the novels Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, and News of the World. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, TX.
Reviews for News of the World: A Novel
This Western is not to be missed by Jiles's fans and lovers of Texan historical fiction.
Library Journal on NEWS OF THE WORLD
Library Journal on NEWS OF THE WORLD