by Darin Strauss · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432248078
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«El auténtico McCoy» is the historical novel by Darin Strauss, published by Seix Barral in hardback (368 pages, in Spanish).
In late nineteenth-century America, Virgil Selby, remembered as Kid McCoy, forged a life as multifaceted as the legend itself: boxer, jewel thief, charlatan, politician, and womanizer. Darin Strauss reconstructs Selby's rise to a living myth and the high price he paid for becoming a symbol of an era.
It is number 1 in the Historical Novel collection; the original English edition, The Real McCoy, was published in 2002.
For readers of historical fiction and biographies of real figures such as boxer Kid McCoy, turned into a myth of late nineteenth-century America.
Darin Strauss is an American writer whose work has earned a Guggenheim Fellowship and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
