ARGONAUT BOOKS

Drawing on contemporary accounts, photographs, dime novels and his own imagination, Michael Ondaatje takes you inside the mind of Billy the Kid, tracing his bloody passage across the blasted landscape of New Mexico and through the battles with his captor and eventual killer, Pat Garrett. Reviews At once violent and sensuous, calloused and tenderGrantaMoving and tragic. . . . Ondaatje is a poet and even his prose moves with rhythmic circular precisionThe New York Times Book ReviewOndaatje's eye for detail is wonderful and he uses it poetically, with superb restraintLarry McMu...Read More