{"product_id":"bucking-the-tiger-9780312420246","title":"Bucking the Tiger","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bruce Olds\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn American Library Association Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Henry Holliday was an Ivy League-educated dentist from a genteel Georgia family when at the age of twenty-one he was diagnosed with consumption and given six months to live. Instead, over the next fifteen years, he composed of his sojourn on America's western frontier a paean to the ways in which a man might bluff death--and attain a measure of immortality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBucking the Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e, Bruce Olds uses a pan-dimensional, genre-blurring collage of original poems, reconstituted news accounts, adulterated epigraphs, song lyrics and photographs, simulated eyewitness testimony, fictionalized memoir, invented correspondence, re-imagined folk history--less to restore the past of a figure who in his lifetime was more thoroughly mythologized than Jesse James or Billy the Kid, than to re-story it entirely. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEvoking Doc Holliday's checkered careers as a frontier dentist, itinerant saloon gambler, professional faro dealer, and occasional shootist (including his involvement in the fabled gunfight at the OK Corral), \u003ci\u003eBucking the Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e displaces the popular image of the Latin-spouting serial killer with the reality of a human being who, exiled to an emotional and physical landscape to which he was singularly unsuited, strove to make of his self-affliction an expression of sustained, if often violent, art.","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45113531007127,"sku":"9780312420246","price":1968.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780312420246.webp?v=1767268603","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bucking-the-tiger-9780312420246","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}