New York Times - ‘Inventive futurism and rollicking wit’ A story of courage and honor and the truth that these two things are often the possession of even the unlikeliest people. In the end, he finds he must return her to relatives who don’t want her, even though he and the girl have become trusting friends. Bandits and Comanche raids and violent weather make as many difficulties as the ten-year old girl who can’t speak English, eats with her hands and knows how to use a revolver. The old man and the ten-year-old start out on a hazardous journey, no less risky because the girl considers herself now a Kiowa and does not have the slightest desire to return. In Wichita Falls, he is asked to return a captive girl to her relatives near San Antonio, 400 miles to the south. Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels from town to town giving readings from the latest newspapers, bringing the news of the world to isolated towns on the Texas frontier. “A powerful, richly realized journey…Captain Kidd belongs in the great pantheon of western characters along with True Grit’s Rooster Cogburn and Lonesome Dove’s Gus and Call’.ġ870, North Texas, rainy and cold.

Quote from Charles Frazier, author of Cold Mountain: All the author does is sit down and write, in silence, (hopefully) sometimes by hand, sometimes on a computer, and has charge of everything, dialogue and sets and costumes, all in one’s head.

how would I even know what all it involves? Oh yes, getting a caterer for the crew on the film site. It seems a long time but then film is a collaborative art and involves so much in terms of equipment and studio work and editing and disitribution and …. The movie is supposed to be out in December of 2020, which is what Gail Mutrux, the producer, tells me. News of the World -the film, with Tom Hanks as the Captain has finished production and is now in post-production and thankfully Tom hanks and his wife Rita Wilson have recovered. It is a story of music and what those who create music must endure in a rough-and-tumble world. This is the story of how they met, how Simon survived the last battle of the Civil War and how they lived through his own terrible mistakes and the chaos of Texas under Reconstruction. You remember the love of his life Doris Dillon. He was playing in Spanish Fort when the Captain arrived with Johanna. You remember Simon the fiddler from News of the World.

Books by paulette jiles in order