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Desperadoes (Paperback)

by Ron Hansen (Author)
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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Souvenir Press Ltd (12 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0285638181
  • ISBN-13: 978-0285638181
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 178,510 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A literary approach to a Western that comes as close to a Ford/Peckinpah synthesis as can be hoped for on the written page. --George P. Pelecanos

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Aged 65 Emmett Dalton is the last survivor of the legendary Dalton gang, now he lives off his memories in Hollywood. Combining fact and fiction Ron Hansen depicts the outlaw past of the Daltons and the West they travelled. The Daltons brothers turn from being peace officers in the Indian territories to a life of rustling. When their leader, Bob, meets Eugenia Moore, a schoolteacher who begins to plan their robberies, they become the most notorious outlaws of their time. As their raids, on trains and banks, become more daring and successful the price on their heads and the pursuit of the law increase. Then they ride into Coffeyville, intending to rob both the town s banks.

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4.0 out of 5 stars a fine grimness, 13 Mar 2009
ron hansen is a most excellent writer. in his western novels, he builds on documentary fact with his deep and poetic imagination to create a credible, almost tangible world.
his protagonists, often drifting aimlessly or forced into criminality by poverty, endure the roles of outcast or outsider with occasional moments of success, but little joy, which is probably how it was.
the masterly "assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford" has a little more impetus and tension than "desperadoes," but both books have a ring of authenticity about them, thanks to hansen's detailed imaginative empathy with those who live on the edge of society, looking in.
the book is full of rain and mud and bad weather and is far from the conventional world of the western, while retaining some of that excitement.victims of shootings, for example, in hansen's books do not often die cleanly, and i'm sure that's how it was also.
a fine book, by a first rate writer.
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