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Sep 27, 2016 · In this National Book Award finalist set 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 that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
National Book Award Finalist—Fiction. 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 ...
News of the World: A Novel. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, Oct. 4 2016. 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
A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself. Exquisitely rendered and morally complex, News of the World is a brilliant work of historical fiction that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.
- Paulette Jiles
Oct 4, 2016 · National Book Award Finalist—Fiction 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 ...
Sep 25, 2020 · Synopsis | Full Plot Summary | Book Review | Excerpt | Buy It. Book review, full book summary and synopsis for News of the World by Paulette Jiles, a heartfelt story of a journey across Reconstruction-Era Texas for two unlikely companions.
Nov 7, 2016 · Nov. 7, 2016. NEWS OF THE WORLD. By Paulette Jiles. 213 pp. William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers. $22.99. As Paulette Jiles’s new novel opens, it’s the winter of 1870 in Wichita Falls, Tex ...
