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‘Etta’ lacks sense of time, place to satisfy imagining

‘Etta’ lacks sense of time, place to satisfy imagining

Imagining the fate of characters pulled from fact or fiction has become standard stuff in the book trade. Gerald Kolpan’s "Etta” (Ballantine Books, $25) gloms on to the story of Etta Place, companion of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (and the latter’s lover), whom Kolpan imagines was a Philadelphia society woman called Lorinda Jameson.

 

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