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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

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  • Moving and tragic. . . . Ondaatje is a poet and even his prose moves with rhythmic circular precision
    The New York Times Book Review

About the author

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of seven novels; a memoir, Running in the Family; a non-fiction book on film, The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film; and several books of poetry, including The Cinnamon Peeler and Handwriting. The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018, and was made into a film directed by Anthony Minghella. Anil’s Ghost was awarded the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.
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