Roy & Lillie : a love story.
Roy & Lillie : a love story.
Alternate Title
:
Roy and Lillie
By
:
Estleman, Loren D.
Publication Date
:
2010
Genre
:
Biographical fiction.
Western stories.
Summary
:
Roy was Judge Roy Bean, the infamous, notorious real-life Justice of the Peace whose life has been the source of biographies, novels, plays, and films. Lillie was Lillie Langtry, the celebrated “Jersey Lily” of the British stage. They never met, but they wrote letters to each other. From very different backgrounds, living vastly different lives, separated by an ocean and most of a continent, these two unforgettable people share something unique in the “lost letters” of this novel. For many years Bean, the cantankerous self-styled arbiter of rough frontier justice, wrote fan letters to the beautiful actress across the sea; occasionally, she wrote back. He even renamed the town in which he lived Langtry in her honor. And they would have met, if Bean had not died shortly before Lillie, after years of this strange but poignant correspondence, finally kept her promise to visit her distant admirer.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780765322289
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Fox Harbour (AFH) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC EST | Please Request |