Sundance: A Novel, by David Fuller
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“An action-filled love story” (San Francisco Chronicle) starring Harry Longbaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid.Legend has it that bank robber Harry Longbaugh and his partner, Robert Parker, were killed in a shoot-out in Bolivia. That was the supposed end of the Sundance Kid and Butch Cassidy.Sundance tells a different story. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Longbaugh is very much alive, though serving in a Wyoming prison under an alias.When he is released in 1913, Longbaugh reenters a changed world. Horses are being replaced by automobiles. Gas lamps are giving way to electric lights. Workers fight for safety, and women for the vote. What hasn’t changed is Longbaugh’s ingenuity, his deadly aim, and his love for his wife, Etta Place.It’s been two years since Etta stopped visiting him, and, determined to find her, Longbaugh follows her trail to New York City. Confounded by the city’s immensity, energy, chaos, and crowds, he learns that his wife was very different from the woman he thought he knew. Longbaugh finds himself in a tense game of cat and mouse, racing against time before the legend of the Sundance Kid catches up to destroy him. By turns suspenseful, rollicking, and poignant, Sundance is the story of one man dogged by his own past, seeking his true place in this new world.
Sundance: A Novel, by David Fuller- Amazon Sales Rank: #1340990 in Books
- Brand: Fuller, David
- Published on: 2015-06-16
- Released on: 2015-06-16
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .87" w x 5.13" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 416 pages
From Booklist In 1913, Harry Longbaugh, aka the Sundance Kid, gets out of prison in Wyoming and goes looking for the love of his life, Etta Place. No, he didn’t die in Bolivia, and Sundance is Fuller’s speculation on what might have happened. Sundance was devoted to Etta and visited her regularly while she lived. Then, two years earlier, she moved to New York City, and her letters mysteriously stopped. Sundance digs up old loot from a train robbery to fund his search and turns New York upside down. Etta left a curious trail, weaving among feminists, anarchists, and Wobblies—and more unsavory types as well. Sundance deduces that she fears for her life and is leaving a coded trail. As an alternative history, the novel isn’t convincing; Sundance just seems too gentlemanly, smart, and cultured. However, as a man looking for a lost wife in early-twentieth-century New York, Fuller’s version of Sundance is compelling. And Fuller’s research, encompassing the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, early feminism, and even New York’s amazing subways, is exemplary. --John Mort
Review “Speculative historical fiction of extraordinary intelligence and descriptive power.”—Dallas Morning News“An action-filled love story.”—San Francisco Chronicle“Sundance is a masterful example of historical fiction. Fuller has crafted an extremely believable story, and his characters feel very human, particularly Longbaugh (the Kid); it’s a tribute to the author’s skill that I felt no urge to imprint Robert Redford’s face on this novel’s protagonist as I read! There is depth to the plot, and a page-turning pace.”—Historical Novel Society“A powerfully nuanced love story… The dialogue is marvelous, with an air of eavesdropping on real conversations, and the Kid strides the pages as you would have him: wily and wise, laconic and patient, hard-edged and deadly when pushed…historical fiction of extraordinary intelligence and descriptive power.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Compelling…Fuller’s research, encompassing the Triangle Fire, early feminism, and even New York’s amazing subways, is exemplary.”—Booklist “Sundance is an intriguing and unique alternative history of Harry Longbaugh — the Sundance Kid — that assumes something many Wyomingites absolutely believe: that he didn’t die in South America with Butch Cassidy after all.”—C.J. Box, New York Times bestselling author of The Highway and Stone Cold“Sundance prances on the page, sometimes rollicking, always high-spirited, as the Kid—yes, that Kid—returns. Harry Longbaugh's poignant search for the woman who almost waited for him is a tale told with rare flair. He's an outlaw to root for."—Ivan Doig, author of The Bartender’s Tale “David Fuller does historical speculation with precision and grace. This is a compelling yarn about the possibility that Harry Longbaugh, the Sundance Kid, did not die in Bolivia but ended up in New York City searching for his wife. It’s a fascinating idea and a very satisfying read.”—Selden Edwards, author of The Little Book “In his ingenious new novel, David Fuller pulls off a heist worthy of the Sundance Kid himself—he steals a page from the history books and utterly rewrites it. Mixing fact with fancy, Fuller paints a vibrant portrait of an America just beginning to flex its muscles at the turn of the twentieth century—and of a celebrated outlaw whose own career reflected every change in the world around him. It’s wilder than a rodeo ride and more rewarding than a bank robbery.”—Robert Masello, author of The Romanov Cross“The Old West meets New York in this clever, highly entertaining novel. Harry Longbaugh is an insightful, wily and romantic man. His quest to find his missing wife, Etta, takes us on an enthralling journey through the neighborhoods and streets of old New York.” – Jennie Fields, author of The Age of DesirePraise for Sweetsmoke“[Fuller] creates characters complex enough for readers to pity, detest and, in some cases, even admire all at the same time.”—USA Today“Fast-paced . . . captivating.”—The New York Times Book Review“A suspenseful novel rich in period detail . . . compelling . . . a well-imagined and researched novel of survival and courage.”—The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“[P]art mystery, part love story, and a harrowing portrait of slavery that reads with the immense power of the slave narratives. A tour de force for David Fuller.”—Pat Conroy, author of Beach Music and South of Broad
About the Author David Fuller is a screenwriter and the author of Sweetsmoke. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and twin sons.
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful. Fascinating read! By Jennifer L. Vido The legendary Sundance Kid supposedly met his demise alongside Butch Cassidy in a fatal shootout in Bolivia, but luck was on his side allowing him to narrowly escape. Unfortunately his freedom didn’t last long. For the last twelve years, Harry Longbaugh has been hiding behind bars in Wyoming under an assumed name, paying for an unrelated crime. Newly released in the year 1913, he ventures out into the Wild West to find his beloved wife, Etta, discovering a technologically advanced place with strange cars and machines. Two years prior, Harry had persuaded Etta to flee to New York City to evade retribution from his enemies. But strangely she has cut off all ties, leaving no word as to her whereabouts or intentions, causing Harry to fear for her safety.To help soothe his broken heart, Harry stumbles into a dark, dusty saloon in town. There he is provoked by a young cowboy who claims to know his true identity. Fearful of igniting suspicion among the local lawmen, Harry quietly slips into the alleyway hoping to make a quick departure. Regrettably, the naïve boy follows inciting a shootout. Having no choice but to leave him dead in the alleyway, Harry takes off for the hills with the boy’s horse to retrieve some hidden loot. With a stolen bank stash from his prior hell-raising days cached in his satchel and the blood of an innocent on his hands, Harry is once again a wanted outlaw hiding out from the world in which he lives.In this highly anticipated second novel by the ingenious screenwriter David Fuller comes a flawless tale of a renowned figure in history authentically reinvented into a sly, relentless maverick in search of his one and only true love. Through meticulous research and attention to detail, Fuller combines elements of intrigue, suspense, and romance to envelop the reader into his fictional world of guns, gangsters, and grit. Presenting an imaginative configuration of the devious back streets of New York City in the early 1900s, this gripping novel delivers more than just an enthralling read. Whether a fan of westerns or a diehard lover of romance, Sundance will most certainly steal the reader’s heart and then swiftly ride off into the sunset.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Legend has it... but what if the legend was wrong? By H. Bala Reading this one sort of takes me back to my classroom days. Only, this time, I'm relishing the schooling and, also, the book's premise efs around with alternative history. At the turn of the century, popular talk was that those two notorious outlaws, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, perished in a wild shootout down Bolivia way in 1908. With his book, Sundance, David Fuller postulates a contrary aftermath.That, instead, it was only Butch Cassidy who got all shot up in Bolivia. And that the Sundance Kid - real name: Harry Longbaugh - was very much alive but cooling his heels in stir in wyoming under an alias. Released in 1913, after having served twelve years, Longbaugh re-enters an altered world. He's driven by his need to find his vanished wife, Etta Place, with whom he'd lost contact for the past two years.David Fuller must've used up all his research chips on this one. They say the devil's in the detail; Fuller must've channeled his inner Lucifer. His storytelling convinces on a down to the bone level. He seamlessly marries fact with fancy and throws in dialogue that comes off authentic, that, were you to be transplanted to Longbaugh's world circa 1913, yes, these would be conversations you'd overhear on the street and in the bar and in the parlor.I have no idea what the real Sundance Kid was like. But Fuller's Longbaugh navigates these pages as we'd hoped he would. The Kid is savvy and wise. He takes his time. He is observant. He deploys his words with care and frequently with wit. And yet he's devastating when pushed. He commands your attention. The early chapters find him in his comfort zone, paroled now and shrugging on again the air and habits of the self-reliant westerner.Longbaugh's search for Etta takes him to New York, and it's there that the story assumes its true personality. This book isn't merely a western. Caught in the sheer cacophony andlocomotion of the giant metropolis, enrapt with the scale of the towering steel canyons, the Kid does go thru a bit of that fish-out-of-water, rube-in-the-big-city syndrome. And it's marvelous to see this new world thru his eyes:"He stepped onto a sidewalk in the middle of the island of Manhattan, a man of the West, standing in his boots on the racing, bustling heart of the great eastern city. He stared at the fevered nightmare madhouse around him."A man out of time confounded by the march of progress? No. Harry Longbaugh stands undaunted. There he goes, getting the pulse of the city, haunting the mean streets of New York, clashing with its unsavory denizens, chasing each rare, precious clue as it surfaces. Along the way, he runs into a historical figure or two and, in passing, gets education on various signposts of the times: the suffrage movement, the anarchist revolution, the tragic Triangle fire, and rumors of an impending world war. In one casual conversation, he even learns of a baseball team in Manhattan that just changed its nickname from the Highlanders to the Yankees. Of course, the Kid dismisses this as trivial news.If you like your speculative fiction handled with admirable precision and grace and thoughtfulness, then roll with David Fuller's Sundance. It's a book of wonderfully descriptive power. A sense of elegy cloaks it, a poignancy. Marvelous characters dot the narrative landscape, from the street-smart Chinese urchin, Han Fei, to the unpredictable, expansive made man Hightower. Longbaugh looms over all, naturally. But Etta Place, in her absence, is just about as captivating. As Longbaugh turns over every rock in New York, he comes to learn just how much his wife has changed (and Etta was pretty unusual to begin with). But she's become even more of a mystery. If I had my druthers, there'd be more scenes with the Kid and Etta. I couldn't get enough of that.With how this book is being lauded for its lyricism and its historical swagger, let's not forget that it also triumphs as a sprawling adventure story. It's the friggin' Sundance Kid, for jiminy's cricket. And even the wise and even-tempered Longbaugh must get to walking the walk at times. So it's vast fun watching him brace sagebrush outlaws, relentless lawmen in pursuit (who believe the legend false and that the Kid is still very much alive), and the urban foot soldiers of New York's most notorious crime syndicate, the Black Hand. Released from prison, Harry Longbaugh returns to a changed world abounding with electric lights and horseless carriages and the inexorable advance of technology. But Longbaugh himself hasn't changed much. He still shoots straight. He still gets the urge to plan out bank heists. He still loves his wife. Oh, it's an absorbing read.Someone needs to make a movie. It's too bad that Robert Redford is, like, ninety-seven years old.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. I'm Not Dead Yet! By Lynn Ellingwood Sundance didn't die but served time in a Wyoming prison under an assumed name. Etta Place his love, has moved to New York when Sundance gets out. He takes some old train robbery and high tails it in order to find her. She seems to be keeping her head down low and purposely covering her tail. Sundance can't get used to the modern times of 1913. Where automobiles are becoming plentiful and life has changed enormously. The fun in this book are the place descriptions and the story between the two protagonists.
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