Sam Bass: Volume 36 (Texas Tradition Series) - Softcover

Woolley, Bryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875652867 ISBN 13: 9780875652863

Verlag: Texas Christian University Press,U.S., 2004

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Book by Woolley Bryan

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The story of Sam Bass, both outlaw and romantic figure, has become a familiar part of Texas folldore and is well documented in nonfiction. But in this novel, Bryan Woolley creates a compelling story by giving the antihero fictional life. Woolley brings Bass alive through six alternating voices - Maude, the whore who was Bass's lover; Mary Matson; the African American who took him in and tended him as he lay dying; Dad Egan, the lawman who was once a father-figure to young Sam Bass but feels compelled to capture the outlaw, Frank Johnson, who rode with Bass but left the outlaw life to reappear as a small-town doctor; and Jim Murphy, the well-meaning saloonkeeper who makes a bargain with the law and brings down Sam Bass. In shaping the Bass story, Woolley explores the themes of youth and age, impulse and wisdom. An outlaw, for many of us, is not a villain or a criminal but someone who, by choice or circumstance, finds himself at odds with society. We see the outlaw life as one of carefree freedom without responsibilities and full of infinite possibilities. Frank Jackson says it best as he recalls riding with Sam Bass. ""I felt like an outlaw but not like a criminal, and the beauty of the day and its freedom filled me.

Biografía del autor:

Bryan Woolley is a senior writer on the staff of The Dallas Morning News. He has won numerous awards for his journalism and has published several collections of his work. He is a past president of the Texas Institute of Letters and is a member of the Texas Folklore Society and the Texas State Historical Association. He and his wife, poet Isabel Nathaniel, make their home in Dallas.

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• Verlag: Texas Christian University Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0875652867
• ISBN 13: 9780875652863
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240