{"product_id":"bucking-the-tiger-book-bruce-olds-9780312420246","title":"Bucking the Tiger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn American Library Association Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e John Henry Holliday was an Ivy League-educated dentist from a genteel Georgia family when at the age of twenty-one he was diagnosed with consumption and given six months to live. Instead, over the next fifteen years, he composed of his sojourn on America's western frontier a paean to the ways in which a man might bluff death--and attain a measure of immortality.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBucking the Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e, Bruce Olds uses a pan-dimensional, genre-blurring collage of original poems, reconstituted news accounts, adulterated epigraphs, song lyrics and photographs, simulated eyewitness testimony, fictionalized memoir, invented correspondence, re-imagined folk history--less to restore the past of a figure who in his lifetime was more thoroughly mythologized than Jesse James or Billy the Kid, than to re-story it entirely.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Evoking Doc Holliday's checkered careers as a frontier dentist, itinerant saloon gambler, professional faro dealer, and occasional shootist (including his involvement in the fabled gunfight at the OK Corral), \u003ci\u003eBucking the Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e displaces the popular image of the Latin-spouting serial killer with the reality of a human being who, exiled to an emotional and physical landscape to which he was singularly unsuited, strove to make of his self-affliction an expression of sustained, if often violent, art.\u003c\/p\u003e ist (including his involvement in the fabled gunfight at the OK Corral), \u003ci\u003eBucking the Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e displaces the popular image of the Latin-spouting serial killer with the reality of a human being who, exiled to an emotional and physical landscape to which he was singularly unsuited, strove to make of his self-affliction an expression of sustained, if often violent, art.ist (including his involvement in the fabled gunfight at the OK Corral), \u003ci\u003eBucking the Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e displaces the popular image of the Latin-spouting serial killer with the reality of a human being who, exiled to an emotional and physical landscape to which he was singularly unsuited, strove to make of his self-affliction an expression of sustained, if often violent, art.ist (including his involvement in the fabled gunfight at the OK Corral), \u003ci\u003eBucking the Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e displaces the popular image of the Latin-spouting serial killer with the reality of a human being who, exiled to an emotional and physical landscape to which he was singularly unsuited, strove to make of his self-affliction an expression of sustained, if often violent, art.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49635809067281,"sku":"GOR010451595","price":2.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656067129617,"sku":"GOR010461799","price":2.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50609568874769,"sku":"CIN0312420242G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52734923309329,"sku":"NIN9780312420246","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52941332250897,"sku":"CIN0312420242A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53258348232977,"sku":"CIN0312420242VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0312420242.jpg?v=1751228453","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/bucking-the-tiger-book-bruce-olds-9780312420246","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}