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Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
Michael Wallis
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Description for Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
Paperback. "This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."-Larry McMurtry Num Pages: 544 pages, 62 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBN; 3JJG; BG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 428.
From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in ... Read more
From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393338188
SKU
V9780393338188
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About Michael Wallis
Michael Wallis, author of The Best Land Under Heaven and the best-selling Route 66 and Billy the Kid, has published nineteen books and won numerous awards and honors. He is a popular public speaker and voice actor and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Reviews for Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
"Wallis brings the legendary Robin Hood of the Great Depression alive—and he proves to be a fascinating fellow."
Tony Hillerman
Tony Hillerman