Ondaatje’s Billy the Kid (aka William H. Bonney / Henry McCarty / Henry Antrim) is not the clichéd dimestore comicbook gunslinger later parodied within the pages of this book.
\Vhen Garrett had got to ground level, only the horse was there in the open street, good and dead. He couldnt shout to ask Wild where O'Fo||iard was or he would've got busted. Wild started to yell to tell Garrett though and Tom killed ...
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.
From 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...
But Michael Ondaatje, in this extraordinary new book--part novel, part poetry, has recreated a William Bonney who is both more objective and far more raw and disturbing than the hero of popular folklore.
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.
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid