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Title: The Stone Garden: The Epic Life of Billy the Kid by Bill Brooks ISBN: 0-8125-7005-7 Publisher: Forge Books Pub. Date: 13 October, 2002 Format: Unknown Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Contemporary Classic
Comment: Brooks'new novel is a poetic tour de force, a literary exploration of the old west as only the most playful and -- simultaneously -- the most poignant imagination could bring to it. I was captured from the first sentences: a dead Billy the Kid -- or perhaps not-dead Billy the Kid -- denies all, recalls all. This is not your father's Western. It has little likeness to the traditional genre, but it has everything to do with contemporary literature, that kind of delightful exploration of truth which is always multiple and never quite certain of itself. Brooks is able to make Billy the Kid a vulnerable, wistful poet of sorts, one who reads Shakespeare and Voltaire, and who kills villains only when forced to. This Billy the Kid is sometimes lonely, sometimes stupid, sometimes conflicted, but always full of a wistful reflection on the human condition, and always full of sad dreams, "like a bird whose wings are boken," as Brooks puts it. In the end, a dying Billy recognizes in his journal that "All the words in the world cannot tell the true story of even a single life." The only problem with this novel was that it had to end.
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Title: Bonnie and Clyde: A Love Story by Bill Brooks ISBN: 0765307995 Publisher: Forge Books Pub. Date: 21 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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