The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480423886

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen Pdf

A powerful novel of the infamous Western outlaw and his killer: “The best blend of fiction and history I’ve read in a long while” (John Irving). By age thirty-four, Jesse James was already one of the most notorious and admired men in America. Bank robber, train bandit, gang leader, killer, and beloved son of Missouri— James’s many epithets live on in newspapers and novels alike. As his celebrity was reaching its apex, James met Robert Ford, the brother of a James gang member—an awkward, antihero-worshipping twenty-year-old with stars in his eyes. The young man’s fascination with the legend borders on jealous obsession: While Ford wants to ride alongside James as his most-trusted confidant, sharing his spotlight is not enough. As a bond forms between the two men, Ford realizes that the only way he’ll ever be as powerful as his idol is to become him; he must kill James and take his mantle. In the striking novel that inspired the film of the same name starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck, bestselling author Ron Hansen retells a classic Wild West story that has long captured the nation’s imagination, and breathes new life into the final days and ignoble death of an iconic American man.

Author : Andrew Dominik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Assassination
ISBN : OCLC:317953268

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Andrew Dominik Pdf

Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786484966

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Jesse James and the Movies by Johnny D. Boggs Pdf

This illustrated filmography analyzes the plots and players of the more than forty motion pictures about the legendary Missouri outlaw Jesse James (1847-1882), from the silent era to the 21st century. Among the films and actors covered are Jesse James (1939) with Tyrone Power, Kansas Raiders (1950) with Audie Murphy, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972) with Robert Duvall, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) with Brad Pitt. Each evaluation compares Hollywood's version of history to the hard facts. A brief biography of the outlaw provides an overview of his life and career. Also examined are European films, made-for-television movies and continuing TV series that have featured episodes involving Jesse James.

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Outlaws
ISBN : 0686516478

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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen Pdf

A fictionalized portrait of the legendary outlaw Jesse James, his violent career, and his murderer, Robert Ford, in an epic tale of the Old West.

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780285641235

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Desperadoes by Ron Hansen Pdf

Aged 65, Emmett Dalton is the last survivor of the legendary Dalton gang. Now he lives off his memories in Hollywood. Combining fact and fiction, Ron Hansen depicts the outlaw past of the Daltons and the West they travelled. The Dalton brothers turn from being peace officers in the Indian territories to a life of rustling. When their leader, Bob, meets Eugenia Moore, a schoolteacher who begins to plan their robberies, they become the most notorious outlaws of their time. As their raids, on trains and banks, become more daring and successful the price on their heads and the pursuit of the law increase. Then they ride into Coffeyville, intending to rob both the town's banks. Ron Hansen was the first writer to approach the mythology of the West with the intent of rewriting history, to show the mixed motives and dubious intentions of heroes and outlaws alike. In Hansen's carefully styled authentic voice (drawing on contemporary newspapers and accounts) his novels would pave the way for Cormac McCarthy's Border trilogy. Combining historical research with his novelist's imagination and ability to evoke character, Ron Hansen rewrites the history of the American West, and revises the romanticised mythology of violence created by Hollywood.

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501129759

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The Kid by Ron Hansen Pdf

"Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the Old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money, horses, and trouble. His spree of crimes and murders has been immortalized in dime westerns, novels, and movies. But the whole story of his short, epically violent life has never been told as it has been here"--]cProvided by publisher.

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451617566

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A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion by Ron Hansen Pdf

Based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan, a latest historical work by the National Book Award finalist author of Atticus follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth's husband triggers an explosive police investigation.

Author : T J Stiles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781407074719

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Jesse James by T J Stiles Pdf

At sixteen, Jesse James began his fighting career by killing Unionist neighbours on their doorsteps. In the bloodshed and bitterness that followed the South's surrender at Appomattox, Jesse and his fellow guerillas, with their gunfights and hold-ups, became part of the intensely brutal struggle by the White South against the racial egalitarianism and Federal power fostered by Reconstruction. In the first serious biography of Jesse James in forty years, T. J. Stiles paints a strikingly new and vivid portrait of the period before the American Civil War, during the conflict and its aftermath. With groundbreaking scholarship and dazzling reinterpretation, T. J. Stiles has refashioned one of the great legends of American history.

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061978289

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Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen Pdf

The highly acclaimed and provocatively rendered story of a young postulant's claim to divine possession and religious ecstasy.

Author : Nick Cave
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184002669

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The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave Pdf

‘I am damned,’ thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die. He feels that somewhere down the line he has made a grave mistake, but this realisation passes in a dreadful heartbeat and is gone—leaving him in a room at the Grenville Hotel, in his underwear, with nothing but himself and his appetites. Bunny Munro drinks too much, smokes too much and thinks of sex all the time. Following his wife’s suicide, he takes his nine-years-old son on a trip to recover from the tragedy. But he is about to discover that his days are numbered. Dark, funny and raunchy, The Death of Bunny Munro is the story of a man full of emotional atyachar. Written in the high octane, charged prose that has made Nick Cave one of the world’s most acclaimed lyricists, it is an unforgettable book.

Author : Ron Hansen
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061978142

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Atticus by Ron Hansen Pdf

Colorado rancher Atticus Cody receives word that his wayward younger son, Scott, has committed suicide in Resurrection, Mexico. When Atticus travels south to recover Scott's body, he is puzzled by what he finds there and begins to suspect murder. Illuminating those often obscure chambers of the human heart, Atticus is the story of a father's steadfast and almost unfathomable love for his son, a mystery that Ron Hansen's fiction explores with a passion and intensity no reader will be able to resist.

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307762528

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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Pdf

25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Author : Sally Bayley
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1906165157

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Home on the Horizon by Sally Bayley Pdf

In this study of space and place, Sally Bayley examines the meaning of 'home' in American literature and culture. Moving from the nineteenth-century homestead of Emily Dickinson to the present-day reality of Bob Dylan, Bayley investigates the relationship of the domestic frontier to the wide-open spaces of the American outdoors. In contemporary America, she argues, the experience of home is increasingly isolated, leading to unsettling moments of domestic fallout. At the centre of the book is the exposed and often shifting domain of the domestic threshold: Emily Dickinson's doorstep, Edward Hopper's doors and windows, and Harper Lee's front porch. Bayley tracks these historically fragile territories through contemporary literature and film, including Cormac McCarthy's No Country For Old Men, Lars Von Trier's Dogville, and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford - works that explore local, domestic territories as emblems of nation. The culturally potent sites of the american home - the hearth, porch, backyard, front lawn, bathroom, and basement - are positioned in relation to the more conflicted sites of the American motel and hotel.

Author : Jesse James,Sam Benjamin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451627862

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American Outlaw by Jesse James,Sam Benjamin Pdf

The Discovery Channel star offers an honest reflection on the highs and lows of his life, from his troubled youth to his failed marriages, and discusses his struggle to overcome his own personal demons and make peace with his past.

Author : Kim Newman
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781789097740

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Something More Than Night by Kim Newman Pdf

With his signature wit, the award-winning author of Anno Dracula, Kim Newman, reimagines the lives of Raymond Chandler and Boris Karloff in this daring and horrifying tale. 'If more mysteries were written like this, I’d read more mysteries.' - Grady Hendrix, author of The Final Girl Support Group Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA’s office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood’s most horrific secrets. Together they will find out more than they should about the way this town works. And about each other. And, oh yes, monsters aren’t just for the movies.