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Bonnie & Clyde

Name: Bonnie & Clyde
ISBN: 9781429922647

The Lives Behind the Legend

Paul Schneider,

399 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Bonnie & Clyde

The Lives Behind the Legend

Paul Schneider,

About this book

"A nonfiction novel in the style of Capote's In Cold Blood . . . presents the story the way it might have been from the inside." —Allen Barra, Chicago Tribune

The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who robbed banks and shot their way across Depression-era America, based on extensive archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews.
Strictly nonfiction—no dialogue or other material has been made up—and set in the dirt-poor Texas landscape that spawned the star-crossed outlaws, Paul Schneider's brilliantly researched and dramatically crafted tale begins with a daring jailbreak and ends with an ambush and shoot-out that consigns their bullet-riddled bodies to the crumpled front seat of a hopped-up getaway car.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's relationship was, at the core, a toxic combination of infatuation blended with an instinct for going too far too fast. The poetry-writing petite Bonnie and her gun-crazy lover drove lawmen wild. Despite their best efforts the duo kept up their exploits, slipping the noose every single, damned time. That is until the weight of their infamy in four states caught up with them in the famous ambush that literally blasted away their years of live-action rampage in seconds. Without glamorizing the killers or vilifying the cops, the book, alive with action and high-level entertainment, provides a complete picture of America's most famous outlaw couple and the culture that created them.

"When David Newman and I were writing the screen play for Bonnie and Clyde we did an enormous amount of research, but not nearly as much as Paul Schneider . . . a splendid biography of two iconic American gangsters." —Robert Benton, American screenwriter and film director

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