The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by 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 planes 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 wasteland – a country of mad dogs, of sweat and gore and blinding heat – the 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.

‘Ondaatje’s language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets. This is literature, art.’ Annie Dillard

'Ondaatje’s eye for detail is wonderful and he uses it poetically, with superb restraint' Larry McMurtry

At once violent and sensuous, calloused and tender * Granta *
Moving and tragic. . . Ondaatje is a poet and even his prose moves with rhythmic circular precision * The New York Times Book Review *
Ondaatje’s eye for detail is wonderful and he uses it poetically, with superb restraint -- Larry McMurtry
Wonderful.... Ondaatje’s language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets. This is literature, art. -- Annie Dillard

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 Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

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ISBN 13	9781529945683
ISBN 10	1529945682
Title	The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Author	Michael Ondaatje
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2025-03-06
Number of pages	128
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