Billy Gashade: An American Epic - Softcover

Estleman, Loren D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812549155 ISBN 13: 9780812549157

Publisher: Forge, 1998

Synopsis

Billy Gashade is a wandering musician who crosses paths with the notorious and the legendary, as well as the unheralded. Billy's song is lyrical and at times elegiac, but never sentimental. And his easy, natural refrain remains true to this day: that most folks were neither as bad nor as good as they seemed, and they did the best they could with what they had. He became friends with Frank and Jesse James, he knew Jim and Cole Younger, who rode with the James boys, and he met characters as different as Oscar Wilde, Calamity Jane, Chief Crazy Horse, William "Billy the Kid" Bonney, General Custer, "Wild Bill" Hickok, and John Wesley Hardin. From the ravages of the Civil War to the early innovations of the twentieth century, the piano player who came to be known as Billy Gashade sang for his supper in saloons and bawdy houses from New York to New Mexico.

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Review:

"Estleman rivals the finest American novelists with his gritty vision and keen ear."--"Washington Post Book World"A brilliant creation. The dialogue is magical, the prose poetic, the characters earthy and real."--El Paso Herald Post"His entire story is a song, lyrical and alive with biting wit, drama, and the grace of a fine tale well told....Rousing and entertaining."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About the Author:

Loren D. Estleman was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a BA degree in English Literature and Journalism in 1974. In 2002, the university awarded him an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters for his contribution to American literature. He is the author of more than fifty novels in the categories of mystery, historical western, and mainstream, and has received four Western Writers of American Golden Spur Awards, three Western Heritage Awards, and three Shamus Awards. He has been nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Britain's Silver Dagger, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. In 2003, the mammoth "Encyclopedia of Detective Fiction" named him the most critically acclaimed writer of U.S. detective

About this edition

• Publisher: Forge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0812549155
• ISBN 13: 9780812549157
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 320