Westerns
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Westerns
（The library of America, 308）
Library of America, c2018
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Note
Chronology: p. 745-773
Note on the texts: p. 774-775
Notes: p. 776-781
Contents of Works
- Last stand at Saber River
- Hombre
- Valdez is coming
- Forty lashes less one
- Trail of the Apache
- The rustlers
- Three-ten to Yuma
- Blood money
- The captives
- The nagual
- The kid
- The Tonto woman
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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