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Being Cool - The Work of Elmore Leonard (Paperback)
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Being Cool - The Work of Elmore Leonard (Paperback)
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Loot Price R550
Discovery Miles 5 500
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Widely known as the crime fiction writer whose work led to the
movies Get Shorty and Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard had a special
knack for creating "cool" characters. In Being Cool, Charles J.
Rzepka looks at what makes the dope-dealers, bookies, grifters,
financial advisors, talent agents, shady attorneys, hookers,
models, and crooked cops of Leonard's world cool. They may be
nefarious, but they are also confident, skilled, and composed. And
they are good at what they do. Taking being cool as the highway
through Leonard's life and works, Rzepka finds plenty of byways to
explore along the way. Rzepka delineates the stages and patterns
that characterize Leonard's creative evolution. Like jazz greats,
he forged an individual writing style immediately recognizable for
its voice and rhythm, including his characters' rat-a-tat
recitations, curt backhands, and ragged trains of thought. Rzepka
draws on more than twelve hours of personal interviews with Leonard
and applies what he learned to his close analysis of the writer's
long life and prodigious output: 45 published novels, 39 published
and unpublished short stories, and numerous essays written over the
course of six decades.
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