{"product_id":"pretty-boy-michael-wallis-9780393338188","title":"Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd","description":"From the best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eBilly the Kid\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRoute 66\u003c\/em\u003e, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles \"Pretty Boy\" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original \"public enemies.\" After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. \u003cem\u003ePretty Boy\u003c\/em\u003e is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Wallis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393338185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393338188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 1.10d","brand":"Michael Wallis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919670608127,"sku":"9780393338188","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_28503989-11ba-4809-bbbb-968764c1329b.jpg?v=1680810670","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pretty-boy-michael-wallis-9780393338188","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}