The Kid: A Novel

The Kid: A Novel

â€œA marvelous journey into both history and imaginationâ€¦A perfectly compelling and fast-paced storyâ€ (San Francisco Chronicle) from Ron Hansen about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid.

Born Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either handâ€”a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money, horses, and trouble. His spree of crimes and murders has been immortalized in dime westerns, novels, and movies. But the whole story of his short, epically violent life has never been told as it has been here.

â€œThe Kidâ€™s story has been told many times. But not like thisâ€ (The New York Times Book Review). In his incredible novel, Ron Hansen showcases his masterful research and inimitable style as he breathes life into history, bringing readers back into the late 1800s and into Billyâ€™s boyhood as a ranch hand just trying to wrest a fortune from an unforgiving landscape. We are with Billy in every gunfight and horse theft and get to know him in full before his grand death in a hail of bullets in 1881 at the age of twenty-one. Original, powerful, and swiftly told, The Kid is an â€œentertaining and livelyâ€¦an excellent, transportive readâ€ (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Country USA
Brand Scribner
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 671277
ReleaseDate 2016-10-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781501129759

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	671277
ReleaseDate	2016-10-04
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781501129759

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