{"product_id":"the-collected-works-of-billy-the-kid-paperback","title":"The Collected Works of Billy the Kid - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Ondaatje\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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. \u003cb\u003eThe Collected Works of Billy the Kid\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth, about William Bonney, a.k.a. \"Billy the Kid,\" a bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint. \"Ondaatje's language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets.\"--Annie Dillard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael Ondaatje is a novelist and poet who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of \u003cb\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDivisadero\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eIn the Skin of a Lion\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eComing Through Slaughter\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Collected Works of Billy the Kid\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eAnil's Ghost\u003c\/b\u003e; three collections of poems, \u003cb\u003eThe Cinnamon Peeler\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eSecular Love\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThere's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do\u003c\/b\u003e; and a memoir, \u003cb\u003eRunning in the Family\u003c\/b\u003e. He received the Booker Prize for \u003cb\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.01 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 19, 1996\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756909756704,"sku":"9780679767862","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/fc318b534ce251436aba5eaa78b5fa91.webp?v=1780089023","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-collected-works-of-billy-the-kid-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}