Summary
Spanning thirty years of Elmore Leonard's career, these western stories first established him as a serious writer of brutal and honest fiction.
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"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." -- Bill Wallace
-- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"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
-- AudioFile
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
Published date: 1998
Size: 6.5 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.35 pounds
Pages: 345
Publisher's Notes
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.The Tonto Woman and Other Western Stories is a raw, hard-bitten collection that 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 "The Tonto Woman," a young wife, her face tattooed by Indian kidnappers, becomes societys outcast--until an outlaw vows to set her free. . . . 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. . . . In "The Colonels 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 . . . and in "Blood Money," five bank robbers are being picked off one by one, but one man believes he can make it out alive.The wild and glorious spirit of the West comes alive in the hands of America's greatest storyteller. 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.
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