{"product_id":"9781529945683","title":"The Collected Works of Billy the Kid","description":"\u003cp\u003eBooker prize winning author Michael Ondaatje invites you on a brutal, beautiful journey into the American West. . .\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt twenty-one years old, Billy the Kid has killed a man for each year he's been alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoaming 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.\n\u003cbr\u003eMelding 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Ondaatje's language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets. This is literature, art.' Annie Dillard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Ondaatje's eye for detail is wonderful and he uses it poetically, with superb restraint' Larry McMurtry\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48228235411691,"sku":"EB_LI0700_B06-02_SIMS","price":24.95,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781529945683-1.jpg?v=1781688091","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781529945683","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}