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Original Title:	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
ISBN:	0060976993 (ISBN13: 9780060976996)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Jesse James, Frank James, Robert Ford, Charley Ford, Wood Hite, Dick Liddil
Literary Awards:	PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Nominee (1984)

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

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Title	:	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Author	:	Ron Hansen
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	February 26th 1997 by Harper Perennial (first published October 12th 1983)
Categories	:	Westerns. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction

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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.

'Wonderful. This is great storytelling, not undermined by our knowin how it turns out. The reader is driven - by story and by language and by history... the best blend of fiction and history I've read in a long while!' -- John Irving, author of The World According to Garp

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Absolutely, and without any shred of doubt, one of the best books I have read ever. Period. No argument. Mr. Hansen's writing is so clear and precise that it cuts straight through you. He splendidly weaves the tale of the infamous Jesse James, the lives he touched (and changed forever), as well as paints a complete portrait of the ever-expanding American West (and the industrialization that followed--how everything was changing so quickly). For my money, the novel is quintessential reading, and

Ron Hansen was the first living author of (semi)fiction I'd read in years. I'd seen the movie and LOVED it - my favorite of the year. It reminded me of "Thin Red Line" and I was not surprised to find that the director of Assassination, Andrew Dominik, had been involved with Malick.The movie is S... L... O... W..., so if you're looking for Bruce Willis type action, skip it. There's a voice over and that's what drove me to the book. I hoped that same poetry would be there and it was.Who uses the

When this book was made into a movie a few years ago, I heard an interview with Ron Hansen on NPR and I liked the way he talked about writing and fiction and nonfiction and people and characters and God. Then I forgot about him for a long time until I recently decided that I want to start reading westerns and I remembered the title of this book, even though it isn't really a western. At first it was a little bit annoying to me; it seemed like Ron spent too long writing each of his sentences, or

When I was writing my MA history thesis, my advisor said to me, "Narrative is the hardest thing to write."What he meant was that a long string of narrative, devoid of historical argument is difficult because the simple recounting of facts gets really boring after a while.The story of Jesse James and Robert Ford is far from boring, but the style of this book reads like the narrative portions of a history or narrative non-fiction book. Only a very few times are we allowed access to the thoughts of

Dont be fooled by the title. This isnt just a fictional retelling of a murder, of one of the most infamous celebrity assassinations in United States history. This is the story of two lives that once-upon-a-time intersected, and were forever changed, each by the other, for better or worse. Jesse James: train robber, thief, husband, father, ex-bushwhacker and hero to many, at the long and lonely end of his night riding ways. Bob Ford: young, impressionable, and desperate to be like his childhood

Jesse James was one arrogant son of a bitch! During a train robbery, he introduced himself to the engineer and the stoker as "Jesse James, the man they'd read so much about." He took a certain pride in his fame, and infamy. Jesse extricated himself from his heavy coat and laid it on the sofa with his hat. "Did I ever tell you about meeting Mark Twain?""No.""He was in this country store and I recognized him, of course, and went over to shake the man's hand and congratulate him on his good