Ron Hansen
Born
in Omaha, Nebraska, The United States
December 08, 1947
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
49 editions
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1983
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Mariette in Ecstasy
30 editions
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1991
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Atticus
24 editions
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1996
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Hitler's Niece
25 editions
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published
1999
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A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion
7 editions
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2011
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Desperadoes
32 editions
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1979
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The Kid
9 editions
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2016
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Exiles
11 editions
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published
2008
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You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe
10 editions
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1994
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Nebraska: Stories
16 editions
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1988
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“For the man was canny, he was intuitive, he anticipated everything. He continually looked over his shoulders, he looked into the background with mirrors, he locked his sleeping room at night, he could pick out a whisper in the wind, he could register the slightest added value a man put into his words, he could probably read the faltering and perfidy in Bob's face. He once numbered the spades on a playing card that skittered across the street a city block away; he licked his daughter's cut finger and there wasn't even a scar the next day; he wrestled with his son and the two Fords at once one afternoon and rarely even tilted - it was like grappling with a tree. When Jesse predicted rain, it rained; when he encouraged plants, they grew; when he scorned animals, they retreated; whomever he wanted to stir, he astonished.”
― The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
― The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
“He said, "He was bigger than you can imagine, and he couldn't get enough to eat. He was hungry all the time. He ate all the food in the dining room and then he ate all the plates and the glasses and the light off the candles; he ate all the air in your lungs and the thoughts right out of your mind. You'd go to him, wanting to be with him, wanting to be like him, and you'd always come away missing something." Bob looked at the girl with anger and of course she was looking peculiarly at him. He said, "So now you know why I shot him.”
― The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
― The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
“So it went. Bob was increasingly cynical, leery, uneasy; Jesse was increasingly cavalier, merry, moody, fey, unpredictable. If his gross anatomy suggested a strong smith in his twenties, his actual physical constitution was that of a man who was incrementally dying. He was sick with rheums and aches and lung congestions, he tilted against chairs and counters and walls, in cold weather he limped with a cane. He coughed incessantly when lying down, his clever mind was often in conflict, insomnia stained his eye sockets like soot, he seemed in a state of mourning. He counteracted the smell of neglected teeth with licorice and candies, he browned his graying hair with dye, he camouflaged his depressions and derangements with masquerades of extreme cordiality, courtesy, and good will toward others.”
― The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
― The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
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