By Michael Wallis
"This enticing biography precisely and vividly catches the tone of a sector, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry
From the best-selling writer of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life tale of a infamous outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished global of dirt Bowl the United States. Michael Wallis inspires the not easy occasions of the period as he follows the lifetime of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, while there have been no jobs and no nutrition, to his descent right into a lifetime of petty crime, bootlegging, homicide, and felony. earlier than lengthy he used to be one of many FBI's unique "public enemies." After a sequence of awesome financial institution robberies he was once slain in an Ohio box in 1934 on the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social background at its most sensible, portraying, with a sweeping type, the bigger tale of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives have been so intolerably shattered through the Depression.
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