The Kid
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
© CHARLES BARRY
Ron Hansen is the author of nine novels, two collections of stories, and a book of essays. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha and went on to the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Stanford University. His novel Atticus was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His novel The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford was also a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. Hansen’s writing has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is currently the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in the Arts and the Humanities at Santa Clara University in Northern California. He is married to the novelist Bo Caldwell.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Desperadoes
Essays
A Stay Against Confusion
For Children
The Shadowmaker
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Hansen, Ron, 1947– , author.
Title: The Kid : a novel / Ron Hansen.
Description: New York : Scribner, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016011975 | ISBN 9781501129759 (hardback) | ISBN 9781501133336 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Billy, the Kid—Fiction. | Outlaws—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Westerns. | FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / Biographical. | GSAFD: Biographical fiction. | Western stories.
Classification: LCC PS3558.A5133 K53 2016 | DDC 813/.54—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011975
ISBN 978-1-5011-2975-9
ISBN 978-1-5011-3333-6 (ebook)
Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of this novel first appeared in Epoch, and chapter 4 in Narrative.