From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a torious 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 jobs and 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Ww Norton & Co
ISBN-10
0393338185
ISBN-13
9780393338188
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107794938
Product Key Features
Author
Michael Wallis
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Biography: General
Genre
Biography: General
Dimensions
Weight
410g
Height
208mm
Width
140mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York
Spine
25mm
Content Note
62 Black-And-White Illustrations
Author Biography
Michael Wallis is the best-selling author of Route 66, Billy the Kid, Pretty Boy, and David Crockett. He hosts the PBS series American Roads. He voiced The Sheriff in the animated Pixar feature Cars. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.