The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Name: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
ISBN: 9780060976996

Ron Hansen

1983·304 pages

Crime Historical Fiction

gritty true crime

“Wonderful. This is great storytelling, not undermined by our knowin how it turns out. The reader is held in thrall”
— The Times

One of the great classic tales of The Great American West... IT IS 1881. Jesse James, at the age of 34, is at the height of his fame and powers as a singularly successful outlaw. Robert Ford is the skittish younger brother of one of the James gang: he has made himself an expert on the gang, but his particular interest - his obsession - is Jesse James himself. Both drawn to him and frightened of him, the nineteen-year-old is uncertain whether he wants to serve James or destroy him or, somehow, become him. Never have these two men been portrayed and their saga explored with such poetry, such grim precision and such raw-boned feeling as Ron Hansen has brought to this masterful retelling.

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