Pretty Boy Floyd

Larry McMurtry · Diana Ossana

Jun 2010 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

The time is 1925. The place, St. Louis, Missouri. Charley Floyd, a good-looking, sweet-smiling country boy from Oklahoma, is about to rob his first armored car.

Written by Pulitzer Prize–winner Larry McMurtry and his writing partner, Diana Ossana, 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.

Ratings and reviews

This book not only runs along side charlie floyds biography perfectly but is some of the best writing ive ever read. Its one of the books that you wish there could be a sequel.

I enjoyed this book very much!!

About the author

Larry McMurtry (1936–2021) was the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lonesome Dove, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. He lived in Archer City, Texas.

Diana Ossana has written two novels, more than a dozen screenplays and numerous essays.