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

Guinn, Jeff

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1416557075 ISBN 13 : 9781416557074

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2010

Synopsis

Go Down Together The true, untold story of the disadvantaged young couple who became the most iconic and romantic gangsters in history. Full description

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

'Terrific' Time Out
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.
Go Down Together has it all: a fatal attraction, rebellion against authority, bullets flying and, in the end, a dramatic death at the hands of a celebrity lawman hired to hunt them down. Thanks in great part to surviving relatives of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker, who provided Guinn with access to never-before-published family documents, this book reveals the truth behind the myth, told with cinematic sweep and unprecedented insight by a master storyteller.
'An eye-opener that will set historians and crime buffs alike talking for a long time to come'
Rick Mattix
A Daily Mail Book of the Week
ISBN 978-1-84739-176-6
Pocket Books
TRUE CRIME
£8.99

Revue de presse :

“Engaging. . . reads like a road story—two kids from the Dallas slums in a fast car, headed to nowhere good.”

—The New Yorker

“A fine work of history. . . . Easily readable and includes much of the last
two decades’ new scholarship. . . . Especially good at . . . placing Bonnie
and Clyde in context.” —Bryan Burrough,
The New York Times Book Review

“A rollicking read, an astonishing story of perseverance in the face of hopelessness,
and a perverse tale of two lovers whom only death could part.”
—Mark Dunkelman, The Providence Journal

“Guinn cuts through the sex and gunsmoke surrounding the gangster
love story of Bonnie and Clyde. . . . A welcome corrective.”
—J. Lynn Lunsford, The Wall Street Journal

“Guinn has deftly restored the humanity of America’s best known
crime couple, stripping away the Hollywood glamour and hype with
the unvarnished but equally compelling truth.”
—Kathleen Krog, The Miami Herald

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1416557075
• ISBN 13: 9781416557074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 496