DESPERADOES. A Novel.
New York: Knopf, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Signed by the author on the title page. One of the legends of our childhood comes alive, the story of the notorious outlaw gang, the Daltons, from their hardscrabble beginnings to the final, terrible morning when all but one of the boys are shot down, and snuffed out, in the fatal raid on Coffeyville, Kansas.The survivor is Emmett Dalton, youngest of the brothers. And it is his voice, completely alive, unerringly true, that mesmerizes us as he sits in his darkened Hollywood home, in the year 1937, remembering back to an earlier time and a different place: remembering the old days in the Indian Territory when badmen rode, he among them; remembering what it was really like to live (and die) on the wrong side of the law. 273pp. From the estate of fellow Nebraskan Beef Torrey, writer, raconteur and friend to many many writers. A fine copy / a fine dust jacket (that looks like it was made not yesterday, but today). Item #12862
ISBN: 0394503503
Price: $150.00