Larry McMurtry - Anything for Billy
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Larry McMurtry - Anything for Billy

Narrated by dime novelist Ben Sippy, this novel concerns Billy the Kid. By sympathizing with Ben Sippy, readers understand the commercial mythologizing of the Old West that dime novelists did, and how the myths that perpetuated from those novels both sustain and entrap the people who live in the West even today.

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You';ve Got To Be Kidding

bygungian Jun 22, 2002
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Pros Short chapters make this easy to read in fits and starts.
Cons Just interesting enough.
Recommended it? Yes

Mrs. G and I just returned from a week with her extended family. There were almost 40 of us in two houses at Sunset Beach, NC. [We made for an eclectic group ranging from our 89-year old matriarch to her newest 3 1/2 month old great grandchild.] As it rained nearly every day, I was glad for a book... Read full review »

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Best of the West

byoldsport57 Jan 19, 2005
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Pros The REAL west!
Cons Too short...I wanted MORE!
Recommended it? Yes

Anything For Billy is one of the finest books I've ever read, portraying the "real" American west.

Full of characters, both real and from McMurtry's prodigious imagination, this makes John Wayne look like the posturing poseur he was.

Want history? Sweetened up with a healthy... Read full review »

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Anything for Billy - Larry McMurtry - 9780743216289 - 0743216288

ISBN13: 9780743216289. ISBN10: 0743216288. by Larry McMurtry. Published by Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Edition: 88

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Authors Larry McMurtry

Professional Reviews

New York Times Book Review: "I think Larry McMurtry may be a great writer....[S]ince the West figures so strongly in our vision of what it means to be American, Mr. McMurtry's labor is, I think, essential literature....When a writer is as good as Mr. McMurtry is, even a relatively minor book is a major event."

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PaperbackDecember 01, 2001Scribner8"(h) x 5"(w) x 1"(d), 0.95 lbs.9780743216289

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The first time I saw Billy he came walking out of a cloud.

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