Isbn: 9781946022905 - the authentic death of hendry jones (13 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. The 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy.

paperback. Zustand: Like New. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact with no nicks or tears. Spine has no signs of creasing. Pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

paperback. Zustand: New. Brand New.

paperback. Zustand: New. Condition Notes: New from the publisher.

Zustand: New.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 216 pages. 8.50x5.00x8.40 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 216 pages. 8.50x5.00x8.40 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 216 pages. 8.50x5.00x8.40 inches. In Stock.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "[An] unsentimental, elegiac tale of a legendary gunslinger's final days . . . Neider's timeless novel sneaks up on readers with a kind of elliptical genius that simultaneously celebrates and subverts its mythos, anticipating and surpassing many of the revisionist Westerns that were to follow." David Wright, Library Journal, Starred ReviewThe 1950s classic that rewrote the myth of the American West and inspired its subsequent chroniclers from Sam Peckinpah to Marlon Brando to Cormac McCarthy.Hendry Jones isn't quite Billy the Kid, but he's "the Kid" all the same, and like Billy's his story doesn't take long to tell. He'll do a fair amount of killing, be done in by an old friend, then get turned into a myth before his body is cold. Years later, one of the Kid's last living partners in crime, "Doc" Bakerold and less than sobertries to set the record straight: who killed who and why, and how none of that old craziness is worth swooning over or rehashing. Except that Doc is a bit of a poet despite himself, and in drawing together what he knows and remembers about the Kid's last days, he winds up saying just about everything that needs to be said about the American West, about kids playing with guns, about boys playing at being men out on the frontier, where they thought no one was watching.As Will Oldhamwhose moniker as a musician, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, was partly inspired by Billy the Kidnotes in his introduction, Hendry Jones served as fodder for a field of artists grappling with masculinity and violence in the West: Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks, Sam Peckinpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian are all impossible to imagine without Neider's Kid having first blazed the trail. A concise and brutal modern masterpiece, The Authentic Death of Hendry Jones is one of the few Western novels worthy of the name.…

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