.png){kind=logo}
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Description for Bad Ol' Boy
Paperback. Num Pages: 375 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 587.
Harold Miles' picaresque new novel, Bad Ol' Boy, records the fantastic saga of Will Cotton's many outlandish adventures-how Will gambles, connives, plunders, philanders, drinks, embezzles, and murders...how everywhere he creates spectacularly varied carnage as he pursues his wily and bizarre life of crime...how he's always matching wits with, and keeping just barely a step ahead of, the clever and relentless Pinkerton detectives. When you first encounter the raffish Will, he's burnt out, dying, and terrified of the Southern Baptist hellfire and torment all the spectacular misdeeds of his wicked life have so richly earned him. Will believes that full confession ... Read more
Harold Miles' picaresque new novel, Bad Ol' Boy, records the fantastic saga of Will Cotton's many outlandish adventures-how Will gambles, connives, plunders, philanders, drinks, embezzles, and murders...how everywhere he creates spectacularly varied carnage as he pursues his wily and bizarre life of crime...how he's always matching wits with, and keeping just barely a step ahead of, the clever and relentless Pinkerton detectives. When you first encounter the raffish Will, he's burnt out, dying, and terrified of the Southern Baptist hellfire and torment all the spectacular misdeeds of his wicked life have so richly earned him. Will believes that full confession ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
375
Condition
New
Number of Pages
375
Place of Publication
Totowa, NJ, United States
ISBN
9781461266969
SKU
V9781461266969
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for Bad Ol' Boy
. . .the novel captures the spirit of frontier adventure fiction in a contemporary setting and should intrigue fans of the American picaresque. -Publisher's Weekly