{"product_id":"the-kid-9781501133305","title":"The Kid","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A marvelous journey into both history and imagination...A perfectly compelling and fast-paced story\" (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) from Ron Hansen about an iconic American criminal of the old West: legendary outlaw, Billy the Kid.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn Henry McCarty, Billy the Kid was a diminutive, charming, blond-haired young man who, growing up in New York, Kansas, and later New Mexico, demonstrated a precocious dexterity at firing six-shooters with either hand--a skill that both got him into and out of trouble and that turned him into an American legend of the old West. He was smart, well-spoken, attractive to both white and Mexican women, a good dancer, and a man with a nose for money, horses, and trouble. His spree of crimes and murders has been immortalized in dime westerns, novels, and movies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The Kid's story has been told many times. But not like this\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e). In his incredible novel, Ron Hansen showcases his masterful research and inimitable style as he breathes life into history, bringing readers back into Billy's boyhood as a ranch hand just trying to wrest a fortune from an unforgiving landscape. We are with Billy in every gunfight and horse theft and get to know him in full before his grand death in a hail of bullets in 1881 at the age of twenty-one. Original, powerful, and swiftly told, \u003ci\u003eThe Kid\u003c\/i\u003e is \"entertaining and lively...an excellent, transportive read\" (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHansen, Ron:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ron Hansen is the author of ten novels--including \u003ci\u003eThe Kid, Mariette in Ecstasy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDesperadoes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Wild Surge of Guilty Passion\u003c\/i\u003e--and two short story collections, among them \u003ci\u003eShe Loves Me Not\u003c\/i\u003e. His novel \u003ci\u003eThe Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford \u003c\/i\u003ewas a finalist for the PEN\/Faulkner Award. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha and went on to the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop where he studied with John Irving. He is now Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., Professor in Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University in northern California.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50524631138578,"sku":"9781501133305","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eed2c19f-8021-4445-80e8-4ad14c1ac001.jpg?v=1731184326","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-kid-9781501133305","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}