News Of The World Book Goodreads

T his month william morrow will publish news of the world the sixth novel by paulette jiles a 73 year old poet novelist memoirist and resident of the hill country town of utopia set in texas.

News of the world book goodreads. Kiowa raiders had killed her family and taken her hostage. It is 1870 and captain jefferson kyle kidd travels through northern texas giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. National book award finalist fiction.

In the national book award finalist news of the world elderly genteel captain jefferson kyle kidd a former soldier and onetime printer makes his living traveling through post civil war texas with a sheaf of newspapers reading for dimes to audiences hungry for outside news. Paulette jiles was a poet before she became a novelist. News of the world paperback published june 20th 2017 by william morrow paperbacks.

The versatile and accomplished mcbride five carat soul 2017 etc returns with a dark urban farce crowded with misjudged signals crippling sorrows and unexpected epiphanies it s september 1969 just after apollo 11 and woodstock. The characters are written with such compassion that they will take hold of you as you will take this journey with them through the harshness of the landscape and the dangerous situations they find themselves in until you finish the last page and part company with these two memorable characters. Her new novel the 2016 national book award nominee news of the world has invited comparisons with both.

In a season of such events it s just as improbable that in front of 16 witnesses occupying the crowded plaza of a brooklyn housing project one afternoon a. And it certainly shows. Much of the state s land was untamed and rugged but in this time between the end of the reconstruction and the beginning of the progressive era texas changed and grew as did much of the western frontier and the new south.

The book opens in 1870 on the wild border between texas and indian territory where a 10 year old girl has been released after four years of captivity. Paulette jiles goodreads author isbn. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them the captain enjoys his rootless solitary existence.