Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend
Paul Schneider, . . Holt, $25 (382pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-8672-0
The lives and the legends of doomed outlaw lovers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker unfortunately take a back seat to Schneider's narrative style in this heavily researched but poorly executed account. Despite his claim that no dialogue has been invented, Schneider's approach—addressing Clyde as “you” (“Feels like you and Bonnie are hot as hell everywhere”)—is jarring and irritating. Opening in 1934 when Bonnie and Clyde helped several prisoners break out from Eastham Prison Farm in Texas, , Schneider (
Reviewed on: 01/19/2009
Genre: Nonfiction
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