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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
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An award-winning reinterpretation of the life and death of infamous outlaw Billy the Kid, from Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje. Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje invites you on a brutal, beautiful journey into the American West... At twenty-one years old, Billy the Kid has killed a...
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An award-winning reinterpretation of the life and death of infamous outlaw Billy the Kid, from Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje.
Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje invites you on a brutal, beautiful journey into the American West...
At twenty-one years old, Billy the Kid has killed a man for each year he's been alive.
Roaming the blasted plains of the Wild West, he moves between friends, foes, and lovers, fighting to keep just one step ahead of the law. Yet in this twisted wastelandβa country of mad dogs, of sweat and gore and blinding heatβthe sheriffs play dirty too.
Melding prose, poetry, imagined interviews, and ephemeral photography, Ondaatje weaves together a lyrical reinterpretation of Billy's short, infamous existence, forming a portrait of a young man, and a young country, borne out of violence, threaded through with disaster, yet rich in wonder.
βOndaatje's language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets. This is literature, art.β Annie Dillard
βOndaatje's eye for detail is wonderful and he uses it poetically, with superb restraintβ Larry McMurtry
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781529945683
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 9.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 199.0mm
Weight: 98g
Pages: 128
About the Author
Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels; a memoir, Running in the Family; a non-fiction book on film, The Conversations- Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film; and several books of poetry, including The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting. The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018, and was made into a film directed by Anthony Minghella. Anil's Ghost was awarded the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize and the Prix Medicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.
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