Billy's Blues, recipient of the 1995 Jerome Lowell DeJur Award (previously granted to Oscar Hijuelos and Walter Mosely), is narrated by Walter, a modern day shut-in who suffers from numerous phobias. Safely removed from the late 20th Century, Walter spends the day sleeping, reading, and eating, until he becomes obsessed with a famous figure from the late 19th Century: Billy the Kid. The infamous 'Boy Bandit King' of the old Southwest, shot dead at the age of twenty-one by Sherrif Pat Garret who once was his friend.Walter ...
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Billy's Blues, recipient of the 1995 Jerome Lowell DeJur Award (previously granted to Oscar Hijuelos and Walter Mosely), is narrated by Walter, a modern day shut-in who suffers from numerous phobias. Safely removed from the late 20th Century, Walter spends the day sleeping, reading, and eating, until he becomes obsessed with a famous figure from the late 19th Century: Billy the Kid. The infamous 'Boy Bandit King' of the old Southwest, shot dead at the age of twenty-one by Sherrif Pat Garret who once was his friend.Walter undertakes a mission to find the manchild behind the myth. With a single-minded intensity he researches everything on 'the infant rascal who shot a man for every year of his life.'Who was this orphaned Irish lad from New York City who had lived among the Apache and was referred to fondly by the Mexicans as El Chivato, a western-style Robinhood?Meanwhile, an old man keeps calling and leaving messages on the answering machine; a mystery caller who might unlock the truth behind the legend of Billy the Kid or who might open a Pandora's Box to Walter's past.As his life spins out of control, his story is interrupted by increasingly elaborate interpretations of Billy the Kid until it becomes difficult to separate myth from reality and fiction from fact. As Billy the Kid leapt into the pages of history from old dime novels and western folklore, Billy's Blues might become an enfant terrible of literature.
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Like New in Very Good jacket. Inscribed and Signed By Author Inscribed 'To Eugene, To a real life adventurer, I hope this modest literary attempt can satisfy. With love, Rips 8/10/98. ' DJ slight edgewear.
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