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Bonnie

By: Christina Schwarz
Narrated by: Candace Thaxton
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“Absorbing...poignant, often heartbreaking...Schwarz is a vivid storyteller.” (The New York Times Book Review)

The number one New York Times best-selling author of Drowning Ruth vividly evokes the perennially fascinating true-crime love affair of Bonnie and Clyde in this suspenseful, gorgeously detailed fictional portrait of Bonnie Parker, one of America’s most enigmatic women.

Born in a small town in the desolate reaches of Western Texas and shaped by her girlhood in an industrial wasteland on the outskirts of Dallas, Bonnie Parker was a natural performer and a star student. She dreamed of being a movie star or a singer or a poet. But her dramatic nature, contorted by her limited opportunities and her overwhelming love for Clyde Barrow, pushed her into a course from which there was no escape but death.

Infusing the psychological acuity of literary fiction with the relentless pacing of a thriller, Bonnie follows Bonnie from her bright, promising youth to her final month of shoot-outs, kidnappings, and desperate car chases through America’s hinterland in the grip of the Great Depression, as the noose of the law tightened around her. Enriched by Christina Schwarz’s extensive research in the footsteps of Bonnie and Clyde and written with her powerful sense of place and time, Bonnie is a plaintive and pause-resisting account of a woman destroyed by a lethal combination of longing and love.

©2020 Christina Schwarz. All rights reserved. (P)2020 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Authentic and beautiful writing

This book seeks understanding of Bonnie without letting her off the hook or romanticizing her. And the writing is gorgeous. The reader for this book was also perfect. A book I won’t forget. (And before reading this, I never had much interest in Bonnie and Clyde).

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Entertaining read

Interesting take on Bonnie and Clyde…I found it enjoyable, but slightly romanticized. The narrator did a nice job with the different voices.

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