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A Dust Bowl Tale of Bonnie and Clyde

✍ Scribed by James Lee Burke


Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Year
2014
Tongue
en-US
Weight
111 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


From James Lee Burke, called "America's best novelist" by The Denver Post, comes a brand new e-short about a young man's encounter with the infamous Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrowβ€”a story that becomes the first chapter in Burke's upcoming novel Wayfaring Stranger.

Sixteen-year-old Weldon Holland has had to grow up fast as he tries to support his family in the aftermath of the agricultural disaster of the Dust Bowl.

One night, a carload of strangers appears on the Hollands' property, carrying the air of incipient danger underneath a veneer of pleasantries. Weldon finds himself inexplicably drawn to the group of trespassing vagabondsβ€”who, despite being camped out on a hidden riverbank in the middle of nowhere, drive the most expensive automobile that Weldon has ever seen.

In the unbearable, rainless heat of a Dust Bowl summer, Weldon will find himself mixed up in an encounter with the infamous bank robbers Bonnie and...


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