World, Chase Me Down Contributor(s): Hilleman, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143111477 ISBN-13: 9780143111474 Publisher: Penguin Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 2016023546 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" L (0.53 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Topical - Country/Cowboy |
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 11/07/2016 Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2016 |
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Publisher Description: Winner of the 2018 Nebraska Book Award for Fiction A rousing, suspenseful debut novel--True Grit meets Catch Me If You Can--based on the forgotten true story of a Robin Hood of the American frontier who pulls off the first successful kidnapping for ransom in U.S. history "A kidnapper with a social-justice mission" (Time), Pat Crowe was once the most wanted man in America. World, Chase Me Down resurrects him, telling the electrifying story of the first great crime of the last century: how in 1900 the out-of-work former butcher kidnapped the teenage son of Omaha's wealthiest meatpacking tycoon for a ransom of $25,000 in gold, and then burgled, safe-cracked, and bond-jumped his way across the country and beyond, inciting a manhunt that was dubbed "the thrill of the nation" and a showdown in the court of public opinion between the haves and have-nots--all the while plotting a return to the woman he never stopped loving. As if channeling Mark Twain and Charles Portis, Andrew Hilleman has given us a character who is bawdy and soulful, grizzled, salty, and hard-drinking, and with a voice as unforgettable as that of Lucy Marsden in Alan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All--an antihero you can't help rooting for. |
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