FROM NOON TILL THREE: The Possibly True and Certainly Tragic Story of an Outlaw and a Lady Whose Love Knew No Bounds

by Frank D. Gilroy ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 19, 1973

A possibly quite funny (depends on your tolerance for broad, low-powered burlesque with a stage-center message) and certainly genial tale of two Old West lovers who are crossed, trussed and done in by their own myth. Amanda's testament leads off: how Graham Dorsey -- ""brooding, close to forty"" -- came to her lonely widow's retreat en route to robbing a bank; how they fought until Graham, first delicate, then blunt, explained his life's grief; how Amanda gave him his puissance; how he died and how she suffered when the villagers thought it was a simple matter of rape (a ""virtuous woman would prefer death to rape""). But when the good people know it was a matter of true love, a myth is in the making. While strains of that new hit song ""Graham and Me"" linger in the air (""we lived a lifetime from noon till three""), Amanda mysteriously kills herself -- presumably from grief. The next memoir is Graham's, very much alive, who went through hell and came back to Amanda expecting a welcome. But Amanda sees her duty clear: ""We have become more than ourselves,"" and dies to save them both for posterity. After all, says the 20th-century publisher, ""if you can't believe fiction, what can you believe?"" Good fun from, say, twelve to one -- take it to lunch.

Pub Date: Oct. 19, 1973

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Doubleday

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 1973

Categories: FICTION