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Loading... Bonnie: A Novel (2020)by Christina Schwarz
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Born in a small town in the desolate reaches of western Texas and shaped by her girlhood in an industrial wasteland on the outskirts of Dallas, Bonnie Parker was a natural performer and a star student. She dreamed of being a movie star or a singer or a poet. But her dramatic nature, contorted by her limited opportunities and her overwhelming love for Clyde Barrow, pushed her into a course from which there was no escape but death. Infusing the psychological acuity of literary fiction with the relentless pacing of a thriller, the novel follows Bonnie from her bright, promising youth to her final month of shoot-outs, kidnappings, and desperate car chases through America's hinterland in the grip of the Great Depression, as the noose of the law tightened around her. No library descriptions found. |
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I didn't know what to expect from this book. I don't real "history" and didn't know much about Bonnie of Bonnie & Clyde fame or of their lives on the run.
Bonnie was a dreamer who wrote poems and wanted to be an actress who just happened to meet Clyde via a friend. The book was all about them going to different places to get rid of the law and traveling all over the U.S. to avoid them and the people they knew who went with them. A lot of shooting and robbing and living in fields. ( )