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S'està carregant… Fire in the Hole: Stories (2003 original; edició 2012)de Elmore Leonard
Informació de l'obraWhen the Women Come Out to Dance: Stories de Elmore Leonard (Author) (2003)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Fun little collection of short stories. All well done and interesting. ( ) When the Women Come Out to Dance, his new collection of nine short stories, Leonard gets even leaner and focuses on what's visceral to him -- the act of confrontation. Leonard likes conflict and the unpredictability of the decisions it causes so much that each of these stories is really a hybrid on this theme. This book is a collection of short stories. I didn't read all of them, mainly because I normally don't read short stories. The ones I read here seemed incomplete, in a way. It was like reading a chapter of a book, and I didn't feel that I reached the end of the entire story; in fact, after the first one, I felt slightly confused, thinking there might be more to the story. But I enjoyed the ones I read while reading them. I had watched a couple of episodes of the TV series "Justified", which is based on a character from the story "Fire in the Hole", Rayan Givens. I like the series, and hope to watch more one of these days. This is really the main reason I read these stories. To be honest, I was hoping perhaps there would be more than just the one story with Rayan Givens. Fortunately, there are more full books in the series. I've read one or two other books by Elmore Leonard which I liked. He also wrote the book "Get Shorty", which was a movie I liked a lot. A small collection of easily-read short stories, each with a quietly witty ending. Some very short, some fairly long. I found the title story classic Leonard, from other works of his I've read. He's not my favorite writer but I enjoy his sense of humor at times. While bad things happen in these stories, they end generally on an up note, if only because we enjoy a kind of unexpected result, often because the right person gets the upper hand. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Pertany a aquestes sèriesRaylan Givens (includes "Fire in the Hole")
In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, "the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever" (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. In the title story, the basis for the hit FX series Justified, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up with an old friend, but they're now on different sides of the law. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from Out of Sight, returns in "Karen Makes Out," once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In "When the Women Come Out to Dance," Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage. These nine stories are the great Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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