The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (MP3 CD) (ISBN-13: 9781433289507)

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel about an icon of American violence. William Bonney a.k.a. "Billy the Kid," 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. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels and his own fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje imagines Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880s 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.

Author: Michael Ondaatje
ISBN-10: 1433289504
ISBN-13: 9781433289507
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Language: English
Published: 08/15/2009
Format: MP3 CD
Weight: 0.22lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.30w x 0.60d