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News of the World Movie Tie-in - A Novel (Paperback)
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News of the World Movie Tie-in - A Novel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R217
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Now a Major Motion Picture 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. In Wichita Falls, he is
offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives
in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed
Johanna's parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised
her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the
ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she
knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and
unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous.
Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at
every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act
"civilized." Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors
tentatively begin to trust each other, forging a bond that marks
the difference between life and death in this treacherous land.
Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome.
The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does
not remember-strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. 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.
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