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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

by Michael Ondaatje

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ISBN13: 9780679767862
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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.

Synopsis:

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 Author

Michael Ondaatje is a novelist and poet who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of The English Patient, Divisadero, In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and Anil's Ghost; three collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, Secular Love, and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family. He received the Booker Prize for The English Patient.

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GarbageHead, March 7, 2007 (view all comments by GarbageHead)
Taut, tight, little work. Built of pseudo clippings and interviews, of reflections. Many consider this one of his best, rawest works. Frame it as poetry and you'll enjoy it.
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lukeymac, November 20, 2006 (view all comments by lukeymac)
Way ahead of it's time, Ondaatje provides a collage of a western hero, in a boyish idolism of a cold blooded killer.
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rayanj, September 20, 2006 (view all comments by rayanj)
Very hard to read
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780679767862
Author:
Ondaatje, Michael
Publisher:
Vintage Books USA
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Single Author *
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Subject:
West (u.s.)
Subject:
Outlaws
Subject:
West
Subject:
Outlaws -- West (U.S.) -- Poetry.
Subject:
West (U.S.) Poetry.
Subject:
Billy - Poetry
Subject:
General Poetry
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Vintage International
Series Volume:
Bd. 1
Publication Date:
19960331
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
128
Dimensions:
8 x 5.17 x .4 in .3188 lb

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"Synopsis" by , 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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