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title: "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid"
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# The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

**Brand:** michael ondaatje
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- **What is this?** The Collected Works of Billy the Kid by michael ondaatje
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Memories of our shared western past
  

*by M***Y on Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2011*

There are slivers of the truth in Ondaatje's Billy the Kid, all the surrounding players and characters. The settings, the New Mexican snows and sands. The poetry of it all, at least now, in our modern world, looking back and reflecting on what it was, or what it wasn't.Essentially this is historical fiction as poetry. Even the prose is poetry. He can't help it. It flows naturally and gives a voice, a sorrow, a reality to the antihero Billy the Kid.I love the many vignettes, the intertwined poetic ruminations by Billy, then the story told a little more clearly, via multiple perspective and experimental forms (photographs, notes, newspaper articles, interviews, other characters' voices, chiasma, etc.). The backstories of Tom O'Folliard and Livingstone the mad-dog man are some of my favorites. Ondaatje paints Pat Garrett as cold and logical, driven, the perfect assassin.Billy is romantic:--- ---she is crossing the sunsits on her legs heresweeping off the peelstraces the thin bones of meturns toppling slow back to the pillowBonney Bonney (21)--- ---And he is characterized with a shrewd, watchful eye. Ever observant and capable. Not quite man, but not boy (just Kid, maybe):--- ---A river you could get lost inand the sun a flashy hawkon the edge of ita mile away you see the white pathof an animal moving through wateryou can turn a hundred yard circleand the horse bends dribbles his faceyou step off and lie in it propping your headtill dusk and cold and the horse shift youand you look up and moon a frozen bird's eye(26 -- this is one of my favorites)--- ---Brilliant book. Fantastic read. It evokes past memories--we explored through Lincoln County and Billy the Kid historical grounds in October 2010. It also evokes memories of the past--many not even mine. Shared west memories of novel indoor baths with warm water, ferrotype photographs, dimestore novels, drafty barns, slow distances over sunburnt land on horseback, the red dirt still, STILL!, and friends who band together. And avenge each other. Highly recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Probably my favorite of Ondaatje's works - a must read
  

*by J***M on Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2018*

While prose, his writing in this book borders on the poetic, and while much of it is formatted 'normally', some pages haveis  an e.e. cummings-like attention to layout. A truly beautiful book, and a joy to read.My sole complaint is it isn't much longer.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A bit confusing, but interesting
  

*by D***K on Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2019*

Told in snippets (poems, personal narratives, etc) and through different points-of-view, the novel can be confusing. However, if you power through the many different genres of writing and points-of-view, they really paint a complete picture of Billy the Kid as an outlaw, lover, friend, enemy, and legend.This is the novel that inspired Multi-genre writing in classrooms, so there is some educational relevance to read it to gain a groundfloor insight in MGPs.

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