Book Called News Of The World

Set in texas shortly after the american civil war paulette giles news of the world introduces the reader to septuagenarian captain jefferson kyle kidd now retired from the us army who earns his living by performing readings from newspapers to audiences keen to learn more about what is happening in the wider world and are prepared to pay for it.

Book called news of the world. It is 1870 and captain jefferson kyle kidd travels through northern texas giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. Set in texas shortly after the american civil war paulette giles news of the world introduces the reader to septuagenarian captain jefferson kyle kidd now retired from the us army who earns his living by performing readings from newspapers to audiences keen to learn more about what is happening in the wider world and are prepared to pay for it. He must deliver one young girl to her relatives in san antonio tx.

An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them the captain enjoys his rootless solitary existence. This novel told in the past tense opens on captain kidd who since the end of the civil war has been wandering from city to city in north texas and giving professional readings of news stories that he collects from national and international newspapers. Her new novel the 2016 national book award nominee news of the world has invited comparisons with both charles portis s true grit because it involves a girl on a long journey with an older.

News of the world by paulette jiles was a uniquely written historical fiction novel that takes you on a 400 mile long adventurous and sometimes dangerous journey across the state of texas in 1870 after the american civil war. News of the world is a stunning novel by paulette jiles that draws the reader into a world of cowboys indians and one old war hero captain kidd who has been given an arduous task.