Moehringer sutton epub books

In 2000 he won the pulitzer prize for newspaper feature writing. What moehringer is also giving us is a snapshot of america from the beginning of the nineteenth century, through the interwar and postwar years but through the prism of 1969 and beyond, as the book ends finally in 1980, after suttons death. Journalist and author of the tender bar 2005 and sutton 2012. Moehringer born december 7, 1964 is an american novelist and journalist. Moehringer does for bank robber willie sutton in this fascinating biographical novel of americas most successful bank robber newsday. Moehringer does for bank robber willie sutton in this fascinating biographical novel of. One of the most notorious criminals in american history is brought blazing back to life by a master storyteller. A nonfiction novel that takes us far beyond willie suttons clever oneliners about banks and deeply into his life. Moehringer, a pulitzer prize winner for feature writing in 2000, brings infamous bank robber willie the actor sutton to life in his inventive debut novel after the memoir the tender bar.

Willie sutton was born in the squalid irish slums of brooklyn, in the fir. Blending vast research with vivid imagination, pulitzer prizewinner j. Moehringer is the author or coauthor of two previous books, both of them excellent. Moehringer also depicts willie as a hopeless romantic who falls deeply in love with bess. Moehringer says writing historical fiction helped him deal with the. Sutton was selected by amazon books editors as one of our best books of the month for september. 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. 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. It was the voice of his father, a new york city disc jockey who vanished before j.