The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Audio Book CDs Abridged

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Author: Ron Hansen
Reader: Sam Freed

Return to the real West in the final showdown of the charismatic, hot-tempered outlaw, Jesse James. Torn between worshiping Jesse and taking his place, a young gang member guns him down in cold blood. Jesse's life is over, but his killer must live out his days tormented by his action. The movie stars Brad Pitt and Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck. » Read More

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Publish Date: 08/28/2007
ISBN: 9780061129810

Synopsis:

Ron Hansen's powerful retelling of the story of Jesse James's last days is deliberately unromanticized, a complex picture of a conflicted man who seems to be ready, even eager, to meet his end.

Author Bio:

Hansen grew up in Omaha, where he was raised a Catholic. He has gone to daily Mass all his life, and his religion, he believes, is what led him to be a writer--inspired by the stories he grew up with. Hansen studied with John Irving at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he received an M.F.A. His fiction has won many prizes, including an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for NEBRASKA, a collection of short fiction. A teacher as well as a writer, Hansen said in a Publishers Weekly interview, "For me, the process of writing is the joy of writing. It's the putting down individual sentences, making them fit together, making the story interesting."

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