"a happy blend of the dramatic, the colorful, the outlandish and the monumental" --New York Times
Reviewer:
Paul Theroux
Source:
New York Times
Much of Schneider's history refutes the oral tradition. We think of the class consciousness and snobberies as having been imported by people from ''off-Cape'' or ''off-Island.'' But we find that such pretensions have roots extending into the 18th century. Similarly, the Cape and Islands' rivalries and stereotypes, notoriously vicious, go back hundreds of years. The book is an excellent account of the high points in the history, from Pilgrims of the past to the tourists of the present, who in their search for the better life have a great deal in common with those early settlers.
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A biography so intimate it feels like an act of ventriloquism...Bonnie and Clyde takes off like a combustion engine, driving the narrative toward its gruesome climax. A cross between ballad and pulp fiction, the book is a close encounter with killers at play.”
—O, the Oprah Magazine
About Paul
Paul is the author, most recently, of Bonnie and Clyde: the Lives Behind the Legend, (Henry Holt, 2009), which the LA Times called "extraordinarily immediate," and O, the Oprah Magazine said "a biography so real it feels like an act of ventriloquism." ...
Causes Paul Schneider Supports
The usual suspects for a writer from Massachusetts, living on Martha's Vineyard no less.