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Anything for Billy by Larry McMurtry
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Anything for Billy

by Larry McMurtry

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This is my personal choice for the best novel Larry McMurtry ever wrote. ( )
1 vote dekesolomon | Oct 22, 2009 |
I've never been much on Westerns, but this was a great read. McMurtry does his best in portraying the characters that pepper the book with a quick dialog and good action. The story surrounds an Easterner who writes dime novels. He abandons his family to follow his heart to the Wild West where he meets up with a very conflicted Billy the Kid. Imaginative plus. ( )
  irishwasherwoman | Mar 20, 2009 |
A fictional biography of the adventures of Billy the Kid. ( )
  santhony | Oct 1, 2008 |
McMurtry runs out of gas when the series is pushed too far: re-read "Lonesome Dove" instead of picking up this one. ( )
  wenestvedt | Sep 30, 2005 |
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The first time I saw Billy he came walking out of a cloud.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0671746057, Paperback)

The first time I saw Billy he came walking out of a cloud....Welcome to the wild, hot-blooded adventures of Billy the Kid, the American West's most legendary outlaw. Larry McMurtry takes us on a hell-for-leather journey with Billy and his friends as they ride, drink, love, fight, shoot, and escape their way into the shining memories of Western myth. Surrounded by a splendid cast of characters that only Larry McMurtry could create, Billy charges headlong toward his fate, to become in death the unforgettable desperado he aspires to be in life. Not since Lonesome Dove has there been such a rich, exciting novel about the cowboys, Indians, and gunmen who live at the blazing heart of the American dream.

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