Anything for Billy
| Author | Larry McMurtry |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | Billy the Kid |
Publication date | 1988 |
| Publication place | USA |
Anything for Billy is a 1988 American novel by Larry McMurtry about Billy the Kid.
It was one of a series of what McMutry called his "frontier yarns", others including Boone's Lick and Buffalo Girls. He said Anything for Billy was a parody of dime novels.[1] He also wrote that Anything for Billy and Buffalo Girls "I tried to subvert the Western myth with irony and parody."[2]
Reception
Kirkus Reviews wrote, "Stuffed with excitement, humor, tragedy, and leathery Western lore; centerpieced by McMurtry's vibrant portrait of Billy, scary, pathetic, yet darkly if oddly sympathetic; told in a warm, wise voice that you wish would never cease: this is a golden, always surprising yarn, and a welcome return by McMurtry to the high-stepping form of Lonesome Dove."[3]
Publisher's Weekly said "This tale of random violence, unlikely romance and quicksilver friendships in the old West is a rip-roaring gamble with a tear in its eye, and it pays off in spades."[4]
References
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Larry McMurtry
- Horseman, Pass By (1961)
- Leaving Cheyenne (1963)
- The Last Picture Show (1966)
- Moving On (1970)
- All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (1972)
- Terms of Endearment (1975)
- Somebody's Darling (1978)
- Cadillac Jack (1982)
- The Desert Rose (1983)
- Lonesome Dove (1985)
- Texasville (1987)
- Anything for Billy (1988)
- Some Can Whistle (1989)
- Buffalo Girls (1990)
- The Evening Star (1992)
- Streets of Laredo (1993)
- Pretty Boy Floyd (1994)
- Dead Man's Walk (1995)
- The Late Child (1995)
- Comanche Moon (1997)
- Zeke and Ned (1997)
- Duane's Depressed (1999)
- Boone's Lick (2000)
- Sin Killer (2002)
- The Wandering Hill (2003)
- By Sorrow's River (2003)
- Folly and Glory (2004)
- Loop Group (2005)
- Telegraph Days (2006)
- When the Light Goes (2007)
- Rhino Ranch: A Novel (2009)
- The Last Kind Words Saloon (2014)
- Crazy Horse: A Life (1999)
- The Colonel and Little Missie (2005)
- Oh What a Slaughter! (2006)
- Custer (2012)
- Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen (1999)
- Roads: Driving America's Great Highways (2000)
- Paradise (2001)
- Books: A Memoir (2008)
- Literary Life: A Second Memoir (2009)
- Hollywood: A Third Memoir (2010)
- In a Narrow Grave (1968)
- Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood (1987)
- Sacagawea's Nickname (2001)
- The Murder of Mary Phagan (1988)
- Montana (1990)
- Memphis (1992)
- Falling from Grace (1992)
- Streets of Laredo (1995)
- Johnson County War (2002)
- Brokeback Mountain (2005)
- Joe Bell (2020)
- Hud (1963)
- The Last Picture Show (1971)
- Lovin' Molly (1974)
- Terms of Endearment (1983)
- Lonesome Dove (1989)
- Texasville (1990)
- Return to Lonesome Dove (1993)
- Lonesome Dove: The Series (1994-95)
- Streets of Laredo (1995)
- Buffalo Girls (1995)
- Lonesome Dove: The Series (1995–96)
- Dead Man's Walk (1996)
- The Evening Star (1996)
- Comanche Moon (2008)
