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Wanted Man: The Forgotten Story of an American Outlaw
One September night in 1892 the wild west went east. A masked man boarded the American Express Special train as it sped through New York State and single-handedly stole a fortune His name was Oliver Curtis Perry and he instantly became the country's most wanted man. While detectives searched in vain, the public and press couldn't get enough of the handsome, charismatic young robber whose physical daring was matched by stories of a troubled childhood and romantic life. Women adored him, boys hero-worshiped him: America was falling in love. Five months later he defied belief by robbing the same train again. This time, after one of the most extraordinary chases in history, he was caught and sentenced to forty-nine years of hard labour. If the authorities believed they had beaten this celebrity criminal they were badly mistaken. Perry's prison life proved as remarkable as his robberies as he turned escape-artist, protester, hunger striker, and finally poet in his determination to win his freedom. In "Wanted Man", Tamsin Spargo brings this complex character to life once more as she tells his story from adventure to tragedy. Thought-provoking, moving, and always riveting, this is an extraordinary portrait of a forgotten man..
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Death of a Super Anti-Hero
Cloakman was more a super anti-hero than a super hero, something of a rogue, a shadowy sort of figure who ended up doing the right thing in spite of himself Only he had never counted on the chain of command .
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Made In Hero: The War for Soap
Hero is as much a dream as it is a land. A mythical urban oasis speckled with olive trees—then cased in barbed wire—it's a disarmingly seductive nation in conflict To veteran reporter James Teheda, the assassination of a local rebel commander is, at first glance, just another day's news. But when Teheda learns that the commander was a maker of soap—the nation's proudest craft tradition—the slain rebel's curious quest to reclaim an ancient soap factory takes on a whole new meaning. This portrait of a stoic society under siege is gritty magic realism at its best..
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The Anti-Hero in the American Novel: From Joseph Heller to Kurt Vonnegut (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)
The Anti-Hero in the American Novel rereads major texts of the 1960s such as Catch-22, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, and Slaughterhouse 5 to offer an innovative re-evaluation of a set of canonical novels that moves beyond entrenched post-modern and post-structural interpretations towards an appraisal which emphasizes the specifically humanist and idealist elements of these works, and in the process reasserts the important social impetus that lies behind them.
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