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Larry mcmurtry takes us on a hellforleather journey with billy and his friends as they ride, drink, love, fight, shoot, and escape t. Buffalo girls fictionalized biography of calamity jane 41 adapted for tv as buffalo girls 42 1994. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read anything for billy. Welcome to the wild, hotblooded adventures of billy the kid, the american. Anything for billy is as full of violent incidents as any dime novel, but there is nothing heroic about any of them. The first time i saw billy he came walking out of a cloudwelcome to the wild, hotblooded adventures of billy the kid, the american wests most legendary. Based on real people and events, this debut novel follows lale sokolov, a young slovakian jew sent to auschwitz in 1942. Larry jeff mcmurtry june 3, 1936 march 25, 2021 was an american novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the old west or contemporary texas. Billy is entertained by the easterner who fell in love with the romance of the west through reading and eventually writing dime.

The merriamwebster thesaurus for large print users. The tone of mcmurtrys next novel about the frontier, anything for billy, is very different. Now, in anything for billy, comes the inevitablemcmurtrys attempts to account for billy the kid, the life and the legend of one of the wests most storied outlaws. Billy the kid, legendary outlaw and gunman, makes his first appearance in this story as a seventeenyearold in a dirty black coat, with a reputation for violence that far exceeds. Welcome to the wild, hotblooded adventures of billy the kid, the american wests most legendary outlaw. The book anything for billy 1988 by larry mcmurtry was mentioned by a teenager who popped into his dads live interview. Anything for billy book by larry mcmurtry official publisher page. Theres much about the old west and the western novel that should stay dead and gone. In anything for billy, he has not resisted trying his hand at the. Anything for billy by larry mcmurtry 1988, ebook for sale online.

Anything for billy has 9 available editions to buy at half price books marketplace same low prices, bigger selection, more fun. Get cozy and expand your home library with a large online selection of books at. Larry mcmurtry takes us on a hellforleather journey with billy and his friends as they ride, drink, love, fight, shoot, and escape their way into the shining memories of western myth. The book is written as the journal of sippy, an author from the east coast who packs up. At first, he seems to have returned to the west of his novel lonesome dove. The man whod do anything for billy is ben sippy, top author of dime novels such as boiled in yellowstone. Sippy meets him on a cold mountaintop, alone but for his mule. Buy a cheap copy of anything for billy book by larry mcmurtry. Billy bookcases are built with a stackable design that allows you to attach new units whenever you need additional storage, just decide on what height suits your space best. Nov 08, 2020 anything for billy by larry mcmurtry, 1988, simon and schuster edition, in english.

The seattle times storytelling at its best, the west at its fiercest, and mcmurtry in his prime. Anything for billy by larry mcmurtry hardcover 1988. Surrounding billy is a cast of characters as real and colorful as anything in larry mcmurtrys fiction. There is the same oppressive magnificence of landscape. Billy the kids puzzled, erratic and purposeless journey through the real west into western myth billy kills, when he does, mostly because he or the other fellow is in the wrong place at the wrong time and because billy cant think of anything else to do.

Find anything for billy by mcmurtry, larry at biblio. Benjamin sippy is a successful but unfulfilled pulp fiction writer. Anything for billy first edition signed bauman rare books. 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. Show synopsis there are some people in the world you would do anything for and billy the kid is one of them. Pretty boy floyd with diana ossana fictionalised biography of the titular gangster 43. Anything for billy fictionalized biography of billy the kid 1990. So, what else could i do but order it from one of my many online used bookstores. Movies adapted from mcmurtrys works earned 34 oscar. Anything for billy is in many ways the exact opposite of john vernons billy the kid novel, lucky billy. The premise of this book revolves around an eastern dime novelist mr.

In his recent books, he has been alternating the old wild west with the west. We had billy bookcases in our kids playroom years ago and, unless they are making them out of something else, the shelves are not sturdy enough to hold a row of hardbound books. Published 1988 condition near fine in fine dust jacket edition first edition. Larry mcmurtry recreates the colorful life of the legendary outlaw billy the kid, a gunslinger neither as ferocious nor as purposeful as legend has him to be. Anything for billy september 1991 edition open library. Anything for billy is a fictional account of the final months in the life of billy the kid, i. Larry mcmurtry takes us on a hellforleather journey. Anything for billy 1st edition1st printing by mcmurtry, larry seller books tell you why, inc. Anything for billy this edition was published in 1988 by simon and schuster in new york. Anything for billy book by larry mcmurtry official. Anything for billy 1st edition1st printing larry mcmurtry books. Anything for billy ebook jefferson county public library. This book is a satiric retelling of the story of billy the kid, seen from the perspective of an easterner who has been addicted to dime novels of the west.

Anything for billy by larry mcmurtry read excerpt mostly fiction. This fictional memoir of billy the kid is told through the eyes of an alien trite simile. Its effective in humanizing billy and the gang, making sympathetic characters of an otherwise rapscallion crew. For there we were, by a little flicker of campfire, on a plain so vast you couldnt even. Replotting the exploits of billy the kid, he surrounds him with unforgettable characters fabricated from a boy next door sentimentality. Meet billy the kid,or mcmurtrys version, anyway an inexperienced young drifter with a lucky streak a mile wide, an all consuming desire to make a name for himself, and a tragic taste for violence. Anything for billy is the pulitzer prizewinning authors affectionate ode to dime novels, billy the kid, and the wild, wild west. There are some people in the world you would do anything for and billy the kid is one of them. Time anything for billy does for the gunfighter what lonesome dove did for the traildriving cowboy. Anything for billy by larry mcmurtry, september 1991, books on tape edition, audio cassette.

In anything for billy, he has not resisted trying his hand at the irresistible gunfighter legend of billy the kid. Larry mcmurtry books western for sale in stock ebay. His novels included horseman, pass by 1962, the last picture show 1966, and terms of endearment 1975, which were adapted into films. But there was a time when i would have done anything for billy.

A visit to the wild west and old florida tanglewood. Anything for billy by larry mcmurtry fantastic fiction. Anything for billy book by larry mcmurtry 9 available. For billy the kid, that ishere, a young, short, dirty, ugly, and violent killer, but still magnet enough to polarize the fabulous cast of historical and fictional characters that mcmurtry texasville, 1987. For billy the kid, that ishere, a young, short, dirty, ugly, and violent killer, but still magnet enough to polarize the fabulous cast of historical and fictional characters that mcmurtry. Billy the kid, legendary outlaw and gunman, makes his. Larry mcmurtry paperback books for sale in stock ebay. Anything for billy book grand rapids public library. Dec 04, 2001 anything for billy rivals lonesome dove for heart pounding excitement and gut wrenching sorrow. The first time i saw billy he came walking out of a cloudwelcome to the wild, hotblooded adventures of billy the kid, the american wests most legendary outlaw.

Not since lonesome dove has there been such a rich, exciting novel about the. This first edition, signed by larry mcmurtry is available at bauman rare books. Lonesome dove by larry mcmurtry, 1985 bce, hcdj, novel, western fiction. Larry mcmurtry takes us on a hellforleather journey with billy and his friends as they ride, drink, love, fight, shoot and escape their way into the shining memories of western myth. After reading anything for billy i could understand why he enjoyed the book. Anything for billy houston public library overdrive. Though now, when i think of billy bone giggling at one of his own little sallies, i soon grow blind with tears sentimental, i guess. One of the more subtle jokes of the novel is the fact that most of the violence. The young s mans enthusiasm about the book struck me. He was not the first person to make the mississippi joke. Sippy who decides to suddenly chuck everything to do with his life into the garbage and. Analysis of larry mcmurtrys novels literary theory and. Anything for billy ebook by larry mcmurtry 9781451607741. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.

This book takes on many of the preconceptions about the western novel and exposes them for the manu factured shams they are. Anything for billy by larry mcmurtry, paperback barnes. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A sweet short life of billie the kid, told by his friend, a gentleman writer of dime western novels. It is more a character study of the western gunslinger. Anything for billy first edition bauman rare books. From the author of the extremely successful lonesome dove comes this affectionate ode to a great american legend billy the kid.