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

Guinn, Jeff

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ISBN 10: 1847391761 ISBN 13: 9781847391766

Casa editrice: Pocket Books, 2010

Riassunto

From the moment they first cut a swathe of crime across 1930s America, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been glamorised in print, on screen and in legend. The reality of their brief and catastrophic lives is very different -- and far more fascinating. Combining exhaustive research with surprising, newly discovered material, author Jeff Guinn tells the real story of two youngsters from a filthy Dallas slum who fell in love and then willingly traded their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and, more important, fame. Thanks in great part to surviving relatives of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who provided Guinn with access to never-before-published family documents and photographs, this book reveals the truth behind the myth, told with cinematic sweep and unprecedented insight by a master storyteller.

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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: Pocket Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1847391761
• ISBN 13: 9781847391766
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 478