Pretty Boy
The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd
Will be published approx. on 24. June 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
538 pages
978-0-393-33818-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.
Reviews / Votes
"Wallis brings the legendary Robin Hood of the Great Depression alive-and he proves to be a fascinating fellow." -- Tony HillermanMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
62 black-and-white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
433 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-393-33818-8 (9780393338188)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
E-Book
07/2011
W. W. Norton & Company
€15.49
Available for download
Person
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.