Either way, Clyde was blacklisted and wasn’t able to get another decent job. Sometimes the police caught him, sometimes they were just looking for someone to blame. Even in the early days, after Clyde managed to find a job at P&G, he subsidised his lifestyle by carrying out small robberies. During the Great Depression, there was very little employment opportunity for the people who lived in such slums. When the police processed it, many of the photos showed Clyde and Bonnie playfully brandishing guns at each other.Ĭlyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker have been glamourised in print and on the silver screen, however, their reality was very different – and far more fascinating. Jeff Guinn tells the true-to-life story of the ill-fated lovers with such skill, that you find it really hard to put the book down! There is no room for exaggeration here their story is enough to keep you gripped!īonnie and Clyde were two youngsters from a filthy Dallas slum, who fell in love and risked their lives for a brief interlude of excitement and fame. Instead of thinking the pair deserved what they got, I now have an incredible amount of empathy for them.įooling Around: When the gang fled Joplin they left behind rolls of undeveloped film. Granted they were both trouble makers, and yes they didn’t stay on the right side of the law, but I truly believe it was never their intention.

If you’d asked me before I’d picked up this book just what Bonnie and Clyde’s story was, I would have said ‘Weren’t they just two outlaws looking for trouble?’ Turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong.

Bonnie and clyde go down together