{"product_id":"bucking-the-tiger-9780312420246","title":"Bucking the Tiger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn American Library Association Notable Book\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312420246\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader Quiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e78280 \/ Bucking the Tiger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.2 \/ \u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade \/ \u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 16\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bruce Olds","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38012626305205,"sku":"9780312420246","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c5630de7-6450-4e60-9b59-ce3dbf4536ac.jpg?v=1609137015","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/bucking-the-tiger-9780312420246","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}