| The Collected Works of Billy the Kid Contributor(s): Ondaatje, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 067976786X ISBN-13: 9780679767862 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel about an icon of American violence. William Bonney killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain nineteen more. In the intervening years he had become "Billy the Kid", bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint, a boy with buck teeth and a pleasant face who could shoot a stranger calmly in the heart and walk away while birds ravaged the corpse. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje traces Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Westerns - General - Fiction | Thrillers - Historical |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 95046415 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.43" H x 5.26" W x 8.01" (0.34 lbs) 128 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder. |