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Pretty Boy Floyd
Larry McMurtry

Pretty Boy Floyd

Larry McMurtry

1996 · Orion Publishing Group, Limited

Floyd, Pretty Boy, in fictionCriminalsBiographical fictionFictionCriminals in fiction

About this book

The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma working as a baker's helper at the Kroger Bakery, has just taken the big step that will make him, very shortly, a legend in his own lifetime: he has just robbed his first armored car. Charley is an irresistible invention, as American as Huck Finn, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint. The women in his life - his tough-talking mentor and lo…

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Quiet, observational, and lightly philosophical — the prose is the point. Best for readers who already enjoy literary fiction and aren't reading for plot. Frustrates anyone expecting clear stakes.

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