The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
- Author Michael Ondaatje
- Narrator Nathan Osgood
- Publisher Random House
- Publish Date 6 March 2025
- Run Time 2 hours and 27 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction: Westerns, Biographical fiction, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Poetry by individual poets.
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What to expect
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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
© Michael Ondaatje 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025
Critics Review
At once violent and sensuous, calloused and tender
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