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News of the World is a 2016 American Western novel by Paulette Jiles . Plot. 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.
- Paulette Jiles
- 2016
Oct 4, 2016 · Paulette Jiles. In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
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- Hardcover
- Paulette Jiles
Oct 4, 2016 · A National Book Award finalist for fiction, this slim Western novel set in crooked Reconstruction Texas is simultaneously brief and expansive. The author is a poet, and the book, with its carefully turned phrases, is reminiscent of Kent Myers's Alex Award—winning The Work of Wolves.
- William Morrow & Company
- $14.49
Jun 20, 2017 · by Paulette Jiles (Author), Grover Gardner (Reader) 4.5 35,790 ratings. Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction. See all formats and editions. National Book Award Finalist—Fiction. It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world.
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- Paulette Jiles
Oct 12, 2016 · An old man, Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd, is content to make his living as an itinerant news reader in Texas until he is charged with a much more difficult mission. A white girl, about 10,...
by Paulette Jiles (Author) 4.3 34,898 ratings. See all formats and editions. National Book Award Finalist—Fiction. It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world.
- Paulette Jiles
Oct 4, 2016 · about. Product Details. reviews. LibraryReads #1 Pick. Soon to be a Major Motion Picture. National Book Award Finalist—Fiction. It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world.