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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

By Michael Ondaatje

By Michael Ondaatje

By Michael Ondaatje

By Michael Ondaatje

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Part of Vintage International

Part of Vintage International

Paperback $17.00

Mar 19, 1996 | ISBN 9780679767862

Ebook $6.99

Apr 20, 2011 | ISBN 9780307776600

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    About The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

    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.

    About The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

    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.

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    About Michael Ondaatje

    MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and became a major motion picture that won nine Academy Awards,… More about Michael Ondaatje

    About Michael Ondaatje

    MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and became a major motion picture that won nine Academy Awards,… More about Michael Ondaatje

    Product Details

    Category: Historical Fiction | Poetry | Suspense & Thriller | Western Fiction

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 19, 1996 | 128 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679767862

    Category: Historical Fiction | Poetry | Suspense & Thriller | Western Fiction

    Ebook | $6.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 20, 2011 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9780307776600
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    Praise

    “Moving and tragic. . . . Ondaatje is a poet and even his prose moves with rhythmic circular precision.” —The New York Times Book Review“The Collected Works of Billy the Kid strains one’s powers of description…. Ondaatje’s eye for detail is wonderful and he uses it poetically, with superb restraint.”—Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post Book World“Wonderful…. Ondaatje’s language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets. This is literature, art.” —Annie Dillard

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