Anything for Billy
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| Author | Larry McMurtry |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Billy the Kid |
Publication date | 1988 |
| Publication place | USA |
Anything for Billy is a 1988 Western novel by American writer Larry McMurtry about Billy the Kid. It was one of a series of what McMurtry called his "frontier yarns", others including Boone's Lick and Buffalo Girls. He said Anything for Billy was a parody of dime novels.[1] He also wrote that Anything for Billy and Buffalo Girls "tried to subvert the Western myth with irony and parody."[2]
Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Stuffed with excitement, humor, tragedy, and leathery Western lore; centerpieced by McMurtry's vibrant portrait of Billy, scary, pathetic, yet darkly if oddly sympathetic; told in a warm, wise voice that you wish would never cease: this is a golden, always surprising yarn, and a welcome return by McMurtry to the high-stepping form of Lonesome Dove."[3]
Publishers Weekly said "This tale of random violence, unlikely romance and quicksilver friendships in the old West is a rip-roaring gamble with a tear in its eye, and it pays off in spades."[4]
References
- ↑ McMurtry, Larry (2009). Literary Life: A Second Memoir. Simon & Schuster. p. 152.
- ↑ McMurtry, Larry (2001). Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen : reflections at sixty and beyond. p. 55.
- ↑ Anything for Billy review at Kirkus
- ↑ Anything for Billy review at Publishers Weekly
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