Pretty Boy Floyd

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Simon & Schuster, 1994 - Fiction - 444 pages
It's 1925 in St. Louis. Charlie Floyd, a sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car. This richly comic masterpiece and American tragedy about the price of fame and corruption of innocence traces the wild career of the legendary folk hero, a man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even if he's robbing you.

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Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other awards, is the author of twenty-four novels, two collections of essays, two memoirs, more than thirty screenplays, & an anthology of modern Western fiction. He lives in Archer City, Texas.

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