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Brian Vallee (1941–2011)

Teoksen Life With Billy tekijä

8 teosta 106 jäsentä 4 arvostelua

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Sisältää nimet: Vallee Brian, Brian Vallée

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Syntymäaika
1941
Kuolinaika
2011-07-22
Sukupuoli
male
Kansalaisuus
Canada
Syntymäpaikka
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
Ammatit
journalist
producer
novelist
publisher
Organisaatiot
Toronto Star

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This volume is chronicles the exploits of the infamous Boyd Gang who robbed banks in Ontario and Quebec in the early 1950's. The reader learns the background on the members and what led them to rob bank and how the life of crime affected their relationships with the women they loved and who loved them in return.

I vaguely remembering their notoriety as child growing up in rural Ontario probably because my father would have been an avid follower of their exploits in the press. While the book is about the gang members and their life of crime, it is also about the newspaper circulation wars amongst Toronto's three newspapers with particular emphasis on the Star and the Telegram competition.

Having recently read a history of the famous Toronto Don Jail and also recently toured the Kingston Penitentiary, it was very interesting reading what it was like to be a prisoner who serve time in both of those institutions. The Boyd Gang's escapes from the Don described by the gang members gave me a different perspective of how they achieved it from the description in the book, The Don.

As two members of the Gang were hung for the murder of a Toronto policeman, the author included how the their deaths led to the eventual abolishment of capital punishment in Canada.
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lamour | Apr 4, 2022 |
I can imagine a worse book, but I don't believe I have yet encountered one. The book turned up on an "Awful Books" relay swap on the BookCrossing.com site. You might enjoy reading the responses the book elicited from several appalled readers.
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Muscogulus | Sep 24, 2012 |
Recreates the life of two women as they survived their marriage with their sadistic husbands. Compelling stories of survival- how do they do it? If only we could break this cycle of violence.
 
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galpalval | 1 muu arvostelu | Mar 2, 2008 |
domestic violence, abused wives, murders and trials, Canada
 
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Simone2010 | 1 muu arvostelu | Feb 1, 2010 |

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Teokset
8
Jäseniä
106
Suosituimmuussija
#181,887
Arvio (tähdet)
½ 3.5
Kirja-arvosteluja
4
ISBN:t
13
Kielet
1

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