The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

Author(s): Michael Ondaatje

Fiction

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth, about William Bonney, a.k.a. "Billy the Kid, " a bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint. "Ondaatje's language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets."--Annie Dillard.


Product Information

Michael Ondaatje is a novelist and poet who lives in Toronto, Canada. He is the author of The English Patient, Divisadero, In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and Anil's Ghost; three collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, Secular Love, and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family. He received the Booker Prize for The English Patient.

General Fields

  • : 9780679767862
  • : Random House USA Inc
  • : Vintage Books
  • : 0.159
  • : 210mm X 140mm X 11mm
  • : United States
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Michael Ondaatje
  • : Paperback
  • : 818.5407
  • : 105
  • : illustrations