description: 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.
language: English
title: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
titlecomplete: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
genres: Historical, Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Westerns, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 4185
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Prose and Poetry
publisher: Berkley/Windhover Book