Apr 23 2008
The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford
Author: Ron Hansen
ISBN: 0285637541 DDC: 813.54
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He was growing into middle age and was living then in a bungalow on Woodland Avenue. Green weeds split the porch steps, a wasp nest clung to an attic gable, a rope swing looped down from a dying elm tree and the ground below it was scuffed soft as flour.
I think this is one of the rare cases where watching the film version improves your enjoyment of the novel. Maybe because for certain passages I could really here the narrator from the film while I was reading. I think that this might make an excellent audio book. Then again, I’ve never listened to an audio book, so what do I know.
In case you didn’t pick the basic plot up from the title of this novel 
it revolves around the infamous Jesse James and his murderer Robert “Bob” Ford.
