Annie Oakley Comes To Watertown

ISBN-13: 9781544650692 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 88 str.

Garman Lord

Opis

Annie Oakley is a work of historical fiction built around the 1897 visit of Annie, as a performer in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, to the small rural city of Watertown in Northern New York. The device used by the author, a mystery crime writer and a Watertown native himself, is to have Annie solve a crime during her visit. The visit was real, the crime fictional, although no more than a small diversion from the body of the narrative itself. The book's real point is to give the reader a taste of the flavor of the late nineteenth century, especially in small town America, and of traveling extravaganzas of the day like -Buffalo Bill's Wild West, - and also to detail Annie Oakley's highly unusual life, so different from the conventional contemporary mythology of shows like -Annie Get Your Gun, - before and after her Watertown visit. It is said that -Annie Get Your Gun- star Ethel Merman was asked why Annie's real life would not have made for a much more interesting stage play, her response was -It would, but then the show would be a melodrama and I'd be a wreck.-

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