Synopsis
Spanning thirty years of Elmore Leonard's career, these western stories first established him as a serious writer of brutal and honest fiction.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-11-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 345 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 16.8 oz |
Publisher's Note
Etching a harsh, haunting landscape with razor-sharp prose, Elmore Leonard shows in these 19 brilliant stories why he has become the American poet laureate of the desperate and the bold.
From a forbidden glance on a Miami night to a killers slow burn on a Detroit street, no one mixes passion, scheming, and violence better than Elmore Leonard. But before he did it in Miami Beach or Motor City, Elmore Leonard did it on the American frontier.This raw, hard-bitten collection gathers together the best of Leonards Western fiction. In stories that burn with passion, treachery, and heroism, the American frontier comes vividly, magnificently to life. In "Only Good Ones," we meet a fine man turned killer in one impossible moment . . . "Saint with a Six-Gun" pits a doomed prisoner against his young guard--in a drama of deception and compassion that leads to a shocking act of courage . . . and in "The Colonel's Lady," a brutal ambush puts a woman into the hands of a vicious renegade--while a tracker attempts a rescue that cannot come in time.Etching a harsh, haunting landscape with razor-sharp prose, Elmore Leonard shows in nineteen brilliant stories why he has become the American poet laureate of the desperate and the bold.
Industry Reviews
"Like Leonard's longer fiction, all these short stories are tightly written, with vivid dialogue and dialogue description as true as the barrel of a Sharps .50-caliber buffalo gun."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Bill Wallace (12/27/1998)
"Alfred Molina delivers a superb, nuanced rendering; dramatic and poetic, it vividly conjures a trio of unforgettable characters. Joe Morton, a likable if colorless presence in his film appearances, outdoes himself in HURRAH FOR CAPT. EARLY, a short story in which local bigots refuse to believe that a black man saved their hometown hero, one of Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders."
Yuri Rasovsky (08/19/1999)
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