News Of The World Book Goodreads

It is 1870 and captain jefferson kyle kidd travels through northern texas giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world.

News of the world book goodreads. The girl is entrusted to 71 year old captain jefferson kyle kidd who agrees to return her to castroville texas where her aunt and uncle live. And it certainly shows. News of the world paperback published june 20th 2017 by william morrow paperbacks.

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 news of the world takes place in late 19th century texas. 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.

Kiowa raiders had killed her family and taken her hostage. 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. 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.

News of the world is an engaging and enthralling short novel. 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. 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.

National book award finalist fiction. Her new novel the 2016 national book award nominee news of the world has invited comparisons with both. Paulette jiles goodreads author isbn.