Blending vast research with vivid imagination, pulitzer prize winner j. Moehringer born december 7, 1964 is an american novelist and journalist. Moehringer weaves his tale around sutton, newly released from prison, traveling around new york city on christmas day 1969 with a captive audience pun intended of 2 newspaper men. Sutton is a killer followup to his unrelated memoir the tender bar another personal favorite of mine. Moehringer 2012, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay.
When he was finally caught for good in 1952, crowds surrounded the jail and chanted his name. Willie sutton was born in the irish slums of brooklyn in 1901, and he came. It was the voice of his father, a new york city disc jockey who vanished before j. But the public rooted for the criminal who never fired a shot, and when sutton was finally caught for good, crowds at the jail chanted his name. Moehringer was born in new york city and was raised by a single mother in manhasset, new york and, later, in scottsdale, arizona. Moehringer isbn 9788417761646 en pdf o epub completo al mejor precio, leer. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. With his riveting debut work the tender bar, garnering raves for its humor, heart, and humanity, j. Moehringer s only drawback as an author is his limited body of work. In the tradition of this boys life and the liars club, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar.
In 2000 he won the pulitzer prize for newspaper feature writing. By turns suspenseful, funny, romantic, and sadin short, a book you wont be able to put down. I knew next to nothing about willie sutton, so it was great to learn about him and have my curiosity aroused. Moehringer, is a speculative biography of the bank robber willie sutton. Moehringers memoir, the tender bar, as a gift from someone who knew i was a reader of the underground writer charles bukowski 1920 1994 whose novels and poems deal with hard drinking in squalid flats, poverty, horseracing, and exploits with women. Moehringer, cateva pareri despre ea ar fi foarte utile. He spins a good yarn but it is the last quarter of the novel that his story threads start to unravel. J r moehringer a fictionalized account of willie sutton, one of the most notorious criminals in american history, traces his life, his doomed romance with his first love, and his surprise pardon on christmas eve in. A 1986 graduate of yale university, moehringer began his journalism career as a news assistant at the new york times. Moehringer made a pretty smart choice when he picked nominal gentleman bank robber willie sutton as the subject of his historic fiction novel. Moehringer este disponibila in varianta pdf, ebook sau alt format digital. He collaborated on andre aggassis memoir open 2012. Moehringer brings willie sutton blazing back to life. Moehringer writes from the point of view of willie sutton, whom he calls the greatest american robber.
The new york times bestseller and one of the 100 most notable books of 2005. Moehringer has found an historical subject equal to his vivid imagination, gimlet journalistic eye, and pitchperfect ear for dialogue. Vam lasat deschisa sectiunea comentarii in acest sens. Moehringers retelling, it was more than need or rage that drove sutton. He graduated from saguaro high school in scottsdale in 1982. John burnham schwartz, author of reservation road and the commoner. One of the most notorious criminals in american history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller. What hilary mantel did for thomas cromwell and paula mclain for hadley hemingway. As the three men visit places of significance in suttons life, he remembers what it was like to grow up, become a young adult, and eventually become the. When willie sutton walked from attica prison on christmas, 1969, the irish, brooklynborn bank robber reemerged as a. Moehringers only drawback as an author is his limited body of work. R download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
Paradoxical and elusive, the bank robber willie sutton would appear to be a readymade candidate for a smart, kaleidoscopic novel along the. Moehringer is a pulitzer prizewinning journalist and novelist. Moehringer is rapidly establishing himself as a writer with a knack for tackling traditionally masculine subject matter without sacrificing the. During three decades sutton became so good at breaking into banks, the fbi put him on its firstever most wanted list. And moehringer had to depend on his own research which was written by others who might or might not have pursue. In chapter one, i chuckled when the prison stated that prisoners arent allowed to have psychology books. Willie sutton was born in the squalid irish slums of brooklyn, in the fir. Sutton, a historical novel based on extensive research, is a comic, moving, gritty imagining of that mysterious christmas, and the remarkable life that preceeded it, a life defined by thrills. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading sutton. Moehringer is a work of fiction but the protagonist, willie sutton actually existed. Moehringer s retelling, it was more than need or rage that drove sutton. Moehringer is a former nieman fellow at harvard university. He is the author of the tender bar 2005 and sutton 2012. He was the winner of the pulitzer prize for feature writing in 2000, and a pulitzer finalist for feature writing in 1998 for his magazine piece resurrecting the champ, an article which was recently adapted for a film starring samuel l.