The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: by Michael Ondaatje - Softcover

Ondaatje, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1529945682 ISBN 13: 9781529945683

Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

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

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

Von der hinteren Coverseite

Booker-prize winning author Michael Ondaatje invites you on a brutal, beautiful journey into the American West - and the life and death of its most infamous outlaw.

By the age of twenty-one, Billy the Kid had killed a man for each year he'd been alive. Then he was shot dead in the night by a man he once called a friend.

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 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.

Reviews:

'Moving and tragic... Ondaatje is a poet and even his prose moves with rhythmic circular precision.' - The New York Times Book Review

'Wonderful... Ondaatje's language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets. This is literature, art.' - Annie Dillard

'At once violent and sensuous, calloused and tender.' - Granta

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1529945682
• ISBN 13: 9781529945683
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Vintage Classics; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/VCL/vintage-classics/; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italien