Sutton - Softcover

J. R. Moehringer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007489919 ISBN 13: 9780007489916

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2012

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2012-09-25 Pages: 352 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK One of the most notorious criminals in American history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller.Willie Sutton was born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn. in the first year of the twentieth century. and came of age at a time when banks were out of controlOver three decades. from Prohibition through the Great Depression. from the age of Al Capone until the reign of Murder Inc.. police called Sutton one of the most dangerous men in New York. and the FBI put him on its first-ever Most Wanted list.But the public loved him.He never fired a shot. after all. and his victims were merely those bloodsucking banks.Based on extensive research. Sutton is the moving story of an enigmatic man. an arch criminal driven by love. forever seeking the beautiful woman who led him into a li...

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Amazon Best Books of the Month, September 2012: When Willie Sutton walked from Attica Prison on Christmas, 1969, the Irish, Brooklyn-born bank robber reemerged as a folk hero for American everymen fed up with a financial system that favored the rich. Infamous for his flair for disguise, Willie the Actor and his crew shook down 100 banks between the 1920s and his final arrest in 1952. He claimed to have never killed anyone, but he spent over half his adult life in prison, where he saved his sanity by reading classics and meticulously plotting audacious escapes--some successful. In Sutton, J.R. Moehringer (The Tender Bar) performs a similarly audacious feat, tunneling through layers of legend and emerging with a novel that hums with the truth of Sutton's life, with all its dramatic contradictions. Shifting easily between Willie's first Christmas of freedom and the pivotal events of his past, Moehringer's tale of how lost love and desperation compelled Sutton to feats of (admittedly criminal) brilliance rivals those in The Shawshank Redemption. --Mari Malcolm

About the Author

J.R. Moehringer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2000, is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Moehringer is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Tender Bar and coauthor of Open by Andre Agassi.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0007489919
• ISBN 13: 9780007489916
• Binding: Paperback