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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Paperback)

by Michael Ondaatje (Author)
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  • Paperback: 105 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin USA (P); Reprint edition (Dec 1990)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140072802
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140072808
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,851,238 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A real tour de force--stunning in its effect., 21 Oct 2003
By Mary Whipple (New England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (Paperback)
This early (1970) "novel" by Michael Ondaatje is a collage of poetry, narrative, memoir, photography, journalism, and fiction surrounding Billy the Kid. Ondaatje poeticizes Billy's thoughts, giving us "insight" into the inner man, while, at the same time, creating a kind of suspense about the inevitable outcome.

By constantly shifting the narrative focus and point of view from Billy to some of his cohorts, the women who loved them, and the "lawmen" who sought them, Ondaatje avoids the need for transitions which would normally challenge the biographer of a legend. And by allowing time to be circuitous, rather than linear, Ondaatje is able to give flesh and bone to the impressions he creates by enlisting the reader's help in "organizing" his material. In short, this is an impressionistic word-painting which gives freshness and vibrancy to an old saga of the Wild West.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Rambling , 29 April 2007
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The author has presented this book as if Billy had written a series of notes and observations, some are poetry, some are about women, some are accounts. My main problems with the work is that it does tend to ramble on and also that the author doesn't seem to know much about frontier life unless the subject is a cowboy - I doubt very much that Sallie Chisholm lived in a bungalow with running water and collected exotic animals.
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