The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

<p><b>Booker prize winning author Michael Ondaatje invites you on a brutal, beautiful journey into the American West. . .</b><br><br><b>At twenty-one years old, Billy the Kid has killed a man for each year he’s been alive.</b><br><br>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.<br>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.<br><br><b>‘Ondaatje’s language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets. This is literature, art.’ Annie Dillard<br><br>'Ondaatje’s eye for detail is wonderful and he uses it poetically, with superb restraint' Larry McMurtry</b><br></p>