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PRAISE FOR ANYTHING FOR BILLY

“[Larry McMurtry] is a resonant scene-setter and a master of voice. . . . The characters are vividly and wonderfully realized. . . . Anything for Billy is a major event.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“Billy emerges as a tragicomic figure, by turns funny, touching, and altogether appalling. . . . And thanks to Mr. McMurtry’s fluent storytelling powers, Anything for Billy succeeds. . . . It becomes both a ballad of one outlaw’s misspent life, as well as a lament for a time and place that once existed in our collective imagination.”

—The New York Times

“An appealing, provocative look at Billy the Kid, or more precisely, the myth surrounding Billy the Kid . . . . It contains the same blend of wry humor, resonant sense of the land, and sadness of destiny as Lonesome Dove. . . . Billy also offers the same readable prose and short, episodic chapters, with some sort of surprise around every corner, that characterized Lonesome Dove. . . . Anything for Billy ought to rank . . . as among McMurtry’s best books.”

—San Antonio Express-News

“Mr. McMurtry is such a beguiling storyteller . . . Anything for Billy is pure pleasure.”

—The Wall Street Journal

“Flawless . . . McMurtry has brought another time, characters, and locale to exciting life in the same way that he did for Lonesome Dove. And the result is Anything for Billy, a novel that can stand equally tall in the saddle.”

—The San Diego Union

“What an imagination he has! When it comes to spinning a good yarn, few writers do it better than McMurtry.”

—The Houston Post

“A lilting new novel . . . a paean to the Old West, that breathtaking ‘immensity of sky and grass,’ at once chivalric and cutthroat, terrifying and emboldening. . . . Events careen along inexorably . . . the characters are heroic, flawed, deeply human.”

—The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Uproarious high adventure that is as witty as it is thoroughly engaging . . . a wry-prose entertainment of great wisdom and cunning.”

—The Washington Post Book World

“Anything for Billy moves quicker than a prairie jackrabbit. McMurtry magically captures the essence of Texas and New Mexico in the late nineteenth century.... A fun and energetic novel. . . shouldn’t be missed.”

—The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

“The best novelist in America may just be Larry McMurtry. . . . There is something grand and splendid about Anything for Billy, which is by turns funny and touching, and never anything less than wildly entertaining.”

—Florida Times-Union

“Larry McMurtry is a wonderful writer—honest, plainspoken, humorous, compassionate. . . . In Anything for Billy McMurtry rides off into the sunset with a kind of truth in his saddlebags.”

—New York Newsday

BY LARRY MCMURTRY