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266 pages, 6 x 9
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Release Date:15 Feb 2026
ISBN:9781573662154
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Daybreak Birdsong Always Wakes Him

The Lives of Billy the Kid

University of Alabama Press, Fiction Collective 2
A coming-of-age saga like no other, reaching beyond the myths of the reckless and romantic rebel, the murdering gunslinger, and the handsome scrapper, one of self-preservation, violence, and contrition, combining an unflinching account of his deeds and his killings with his desperate attempts to escape his own history. This is a complex and authentic Billy—at times a violent character, yet often a sympathetic one—always clever, ever engaging—but beset by loneliness and regret. 
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