Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde - Brossura

Guinn, Jeff

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ISBN 10: 1847371345 ISBN 13: 9781847371348

Casa editrice: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2009

Riassunto

Bonnie & Clyde were the first American icons created by modern media. These media-savvy gangsters nurtured a self-image of murderous glamour for Depression-era Americans who hungered for entertainment and larger-than-life characters who defied authority. But the fact is, they were among the most inept criminals in history. Just kids in their early twenties when they started robbing banks and mom-and-pop stores, and killing lawmen, Bonnie and Clyde botched almost every bank robbery they attempted, and sometimes they had to break into gum machines to get meal money. Yet, thanks to the media, Bonnie and Clyde were a great, epic love story and became national icons on a par with cinema gangsters Jimmy Cagney and Edward G. Robinson.

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‘The couple were, in their peculiar way, courteous – preferring to kidnap lawmen than shoot them, often becoming friendly with their hostages and scrupulously leaving tips for the owners of their hideouts. When a former associate was jailed, even though Clyde didn’t like him, he felt good manners obliged him to attempt a rescue. But, boy, did things also go wrong. Their gang was for ever robbing empty banks, running out of petrol, breaking down, sinking up to their axles in mud and, on one memorable occasion, being beaten up by a couple of old ladies with croquet mallets. A real strength of this book is that you get a strong sense of the historical landscape against which their story took place – a historical moment that enabled both their criminal career to proceed in the way it did and their myth to grow’
Book of the week, Daily Mail 1/5
‘Given the present state of America’s economy, Jeff Guinn’s terrific biography of Depression-era gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker couldn’t be more timely.....This is the clearest view yet of a pair of mythologised hoodlums whose career illuminates the short, brutal period that marked the last days of the Wild West’
Time Out 20/8
‘More than any previous biographer, Guin shows Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow as products of West Dallas in the 1920s.. West Dallas was generally recognised to be the worst slum in any Texas city’
London Review of Books 10/9
‘This is a gripping account of the grim lives of Bonnie and Clyde, and the spell they cast over Depression America’
The Sunday Times 29/11

L'autore:

Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of the three books in 'The Christmas Chronicles,' is an award-winning journalist and writer

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• Editore: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1847371345
• ISBN 13: 9781847371348
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 466