Westerns
By: Elmore Leonard ; Terrence Rafferty, editor
Contributors: Rafferty, Terrence, editor; Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013; Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013; Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013; Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013; Leonard, Elmore, 1925-2013
Series: Library of America -- 308
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 781
ISBN-13: 9781598535624
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Western stories; Short stories
Work titles: Novels
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."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Last stand at Saber River; title: Hombre; title: Valdez is coming; title: Forty lashes less one; title: Stories: Trail of the Apache ; The rustlers ; Three-ten to Yuma ; Blood money ; The captives ; The nagual ; The kid ; The Tonto woman.