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Larry McMurtry - Anything for Billy

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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

Date of Review:  Jun 22, 2002
The Bottom Line: Anything for Billy presents a Billy Bone that I had not known. A simple read that doesn't require a lot of concentration - a good "pick-it-up" and "put-it-down" book.
Review: 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...
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  3.0

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Recommended to buy: Yes

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Short chapters make this easy to read...
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Just interesting enough.
 

Best of the West

Date of Review:  Jan 19, 2005
Review: 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.
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  5.0

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Recommended to buy: Yes

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The REAL west!
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Too short...I wanted MORE!
 
 
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Authors Larry McMurtry
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  Times Literary Supplement: "[W]ill certainly upset anyone nostalgic for Hollywood's version of the boy who never grew old."

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  Format: Hardcover - Prebinding
Publisher: Bt Bound (July 01, 2003)
Measurements: 7.75"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 1.15 lbs.
ISBN: 9780613576192

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