PRETTY BOY FLOYD (1994) Larry McMurtry & and 50 similar items

6.5" x 9.5", 444 page hardcover with dustjacket titled PRETTY BOY FLOYD: A NOVEL by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana/ Simon Schuster, ISBN # 0-671-89165-0, First Printing, Copyright 1994/ Pretty Boy Floyd is a 1994 American novel by Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, a fictionalized biography of the titular gangster which originally began as a film script. Pretty Boy Floyd traces the wild career of the legendary American folk hero Charley Floyd, a young man so charming that it's hard not to like him, even as he's robbing you at gunpoint. From the bank heists and shootings that make him Public Enemy Number One to the women who love him, from the glamour-hungry nation that worships him to the G-men who track Charley down, Pretty Boy Floyd is both a richly comic masterpiece and an American tragedy about the price of fame and the corruption of innocence. McMurtry was friends with Ossana, and recuperated from his heart surgery in 1991 at her house. She helped him edit the novel Streets of Laredo and then when Warner Bros approached him to write a script about Pretty Boy Floyd he agreed if Ossana would help him. Once they wrote the script they then wrote the novel together. The movie was never made but the novel was published. The book is complete and in EXCELLENT condition with some overall light wear.