Bucking the Tiger
A Novel
by Bruce Olds
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Faced with deadly consumption, a young dentist named John Henry Holliday--better known as "Doc"--leaves Georgia to go out west. Bruce Olds tells the story of this legendary western figure through an overlapping collage of poems, newspaper clippings, songs, photographs, and letters, presenting us with new version of Doc Holliday as not just a killer but a complex man trying to be true to himself in a hostile environment.
Editions of Bucking the Tiger
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Paperback |
Publisher Picador USA |
Date 2002 |
Price $1.11 |
 Used - Very Good |
Publisher Notes
Filled with original poems, reconstituted news accounts, song lyrics, photographs, and simulated eyewitness testimony, an evocative historical novel follows Doc Holliday's lucrative careers as a frontier dentist, itinerant saloon gambler, professional faro dealer, and occasional shootist, reinventing the American West icon as a human being who was determined to make his mark on the world.
Media Reviews
"[Olds] weaves lists, original poems and snatches of ersatz oral history into narrative to create an impressionistic essay on mortality and loss....the pastiche will tax the patience of some readers. But the rich prose rewards perseverance."
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