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The Congress Of Rough riders

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William Cody grows up surrounded by his father's tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his own fantasies of the Wild West.

Though he escapes his heritage by fleeing abroad and starting a new life for himself, he finds that he is always drawn back to England and to his ancestry.

When his father proposes that together they should recreate Buffalo Bill's stage show, 'The Congress of Rough Riders of the World' for a contemporary audience, William refuses to have any part in it.

When tragedy strikes however, it is to his father that he eventually returns.

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0753813823 / 9780753813829
Paperback / softback
823.92
05/12/2002
United Kingdom
English
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392 p.
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001.
A highly original novel by a young author who has already been shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award A promotable author - a graduate of the creative writing course at the University of East Anglia 'A treat...a plot split between vivid leaps backward to grimy 18th-century Dover, the French Revolution or Gatsby-esque 1920s Hollywood' Scotsman 'Brilliant...a total blast...wonderfully unhinged...Not only is all the Buffalo Bill material brilliant, it is matched by a crazy contemporary narrative that moves through Toyko, Paris, New York and Clapham..the plot is dazzling throughout...This is
A highly original novel by a young author who has already been shortlisted for the Hennessy Literary Award A promotable author - a graduate of the creative writing course at the University of East Anglia 'A treat...a plot split between vivid leaps backward to grimy 18th-century Dover, the French Revolution or Gatsby-esque 1920s Hollywood' Scotsman 'Brilliant...a total blast...wonderfully unhinged...Not only is all the Buffalo Bill material brilliant, it is matched by a crazy contemporary narrative that moves through Toyko, Paris, New York and Clapham..the plot is dazzling throughout...This is FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)