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Oct 4, 2016 · 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.
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.
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.
Jun 20, 2017 · 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.
- Paulette Jiles
Set in the 1870s Texas, News Of The World is a stunning literary fiction that follows the story of a young girl Johanna, who is still in trauma after being captured and later released by Kiowa for whatever reasons unknown.
- Paulette Jiles
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
Sep 25, 2020 · 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.
Book Summary. It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.
Jun 20, 2017 · News of the World by Paulette Jiles. Publication Date: June 20, 2017; Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction; Paperback: 240 pages; Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; ISBN-10: 0062409212; ISBN-13: 9780062409218
Jun 20, 2017 · 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.
