While Angels Dance - Softcover

Cotton, Ralph W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312954611 ISBN 13: 9780312954611

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1995

Synopsis

An epic drama follows the post-Civil War adventures of young Jeston Nash, the cousin to outlaws Frank and Jesse James, and chronicles his crimes, friendships, loves, and eventual rise to respectability. Reprint.

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About the Author

Ralph Cotton is a best-selling author with over seventy books to his credit and millions of books in print. Ralph's books are top sellers in the Western and Civil War/Western genres, and in 2015 he debuted his new Gun Culture series with Friend of a Friend. Known for fast-paced narrative and wry dark humor, Ralph's introduction to the Florida crime fiction genre has been well received. While Angels Dance is Ralph Cotton's first novel, written in 1994; it became a candidate for a Pulitzer Prize in Fiction that same year. It has been reissued in Ralph's Western Classics group of books, as well as an ebook. Ralph lives on the Florida coast with his wife Mary Lynn. He writes prodigiously but also enjoys painting, Photography, sailing and playing guitar.

From Publishers Weekly

Drawing inspiration from tales heard in his childhood, Cotton fashions an engaging debut that moves effortlessly between the Civil-War and traditional western genres. When the book's eponymous hero (who may be cousin to the notorious Frank and Jesse James) accidentally kills a Union soldier, he flees to the Nebraska homestead of the James clan. At first viewed with distrust by his supposed kin, he eventually joins up with them in Quantrill's Raiders, a Confederate guerrilla band that refused to accept Southern defeat and spawned the outlaws alternately reviled and embraced by the public. Seen through the eyes of the (relatively) innocent Nash, the ensuing action covers the careers of the West's most famous bandits from their first bank robbery to the disastrous Northfield, Minn., raid, which brought the partnership to a bloody end. (Also covered is Jesse's murder at the hands of the traitorous Bob Ford, while a brief epilogue relates the fates of these notorious personalities.) Cotton's authentic period detail and dialogue lend a disarming realism to this solidly crafted yarn.
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Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312954611
• ISBN 13: 9780312954611
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344