Westerns / Elmore Leonard ; Terrence Rafferty, editor.

Novels. Selections

9781598535624 (hardcover)
1598535625 (hardcover)

English

781 pages ; 21 cm.

PS3562.E55 A6 2018

813/.54

"One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled for their wiry tautness, sharp characterizations, and jolts of unexpected humor. For sheer stripped-down narrative tension Leonard never did anything better, and the fresh twists he finds in resolving the genre's classic confrontations reveal a master at work. Whether describing a Civil War veteran coming back to find his homestead stolen (Last Stand at Saber River), a man raised by Apaches treated with contempt by the white settlers who will ultimately depend on him for their survival (Hombre), a local constable, tricked into killing an innocent man, fighting back against the powerful man who duped him (Valdez Is Coming), or two convicts in a desert prison--one African American and the other half-Apache--plotting a near-impossible escape (Forty Lashes Less One), Leonard's westerns are tough, suspenseful, convincing, and beautifully spare in style."-- Amazon.com.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 774-781).

Library of America ; 308.

Container of (work): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013. Last stand at Saber River.
Container of (work): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013. Hombre.
Container of (work): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013. Valdez is coming.
Container of (work): Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013. Forty lashes less one.

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