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Elmore Leonard
Grand master Elmore Leonard is justifiably acknowledged as "the best writer of crime fiction alive" (Newsweek) - and, in fact, one of the very best ever, alongside other all-time greats like John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain, and Robert Parker. But he has also many acclaimed masterworks of American Western fiction to his credit - including Hombre, the basis for the classic Hollywood motion picture starring Paul Newman.
Set in Arizona mining country, Hombre is the tale of a white man raised by Indians, who must come to the aid of people who hate him when their stagecoach is attacked by outlaws. As thrilling as his contemporary novels of crime, double-cross, and murder in Detroit and Miami, Hombre is Elmore Leonard at his riveting best - no less than one would expect from the creator of US Marshal Raylan Givens (Justified).
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Classic Elmore Leonard Western
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Even better than the excellent movie.
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A classic Elmore Leonard western story
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Good but not great.
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“We all die, it’s just a question of when.”—Johnrussell
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What made the experience of listening to Hombre the most enjoyable?
Suspenseful, surprising.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Actually listened to it all in 2 sittingsAny additional comments?
Early work by Leonard very different from his later books but still really good.Early Elmore Leonard starts slow, gets really good
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excellent tale of morality, the banality of evil
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Great story, great narration.
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- Elmore Leonard, Hombre
Book two in Library of America's: Westerns: Last Stand at Saber River / Hombre / Valdez Is Coming / Forty Lashes Less One / Stories. Hombre, published in 1961, has the feel almost of a locked-room mystery. Except instead of a room, it is a mud coach (think a lighter version of a stage coach). The hero is John Russell, an Apache-raised white man. The story is narrated by a young, innocent man whose vision of Russell changes (along with the rest of the coach passengers) after the coach is held-up and the passengers are left for dead.
One of Leonard's big themes in this book is predudice and our expectations of others based on class and background. Like many of Leonard's novels, this one was made into a movie (starring Paul Newman) in 1967.
You can look at something for a long time...
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Classic Leonard!
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