Marked by his unmistakable humor and grit, the stories in this collection - produced early in his career, then he was making his name particularly with westerns - reveal a write in transition. In these tales Leonard explores new voices and location, from the bars of small border towns in New Mexico to the seedy clubs of Detroit, from a film set in Hollywood where a struggling actor collapses in a valiant death again and again to a hotel in Southern Spain where oblivious, vacationing American couples drink the night away, and even to a military base in Kuala Lumpur and a small town in Mississippi during the Civil War.
Record details
ISBN:9780062364920
Physical Description:ix, 237 pages ; 24 cm regular print print
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2015.
One, horizontal -- Charlie Martz -- Siesta in Paloverde -- Time of terror -- A happy, lighthearted people -- Arma virumque cano -- Confession -- Evenings away from home -- For something to do -- The Italian cut -- The only good Syrian foot soldier is a dead one -- The line rider -- The trespassers -- The bull ring at Blisston -- Rebel on the run.
Summary: Marked by his unmistakable humor and grit, the stories in this collection - produced early in his career, then he was making his name particularly with westerns - reveal a write in transition. In these tales Leonard explores new voices and location, from the bars of small border towns in New Mexico to the seedy clubs of Detroit, from a film set in Hollywood where a struggling actor collapses in a valiant death again and again to a hotel in Southern Spain where oblivious, vacationing American couples drink the night away, and even to a military base in Kuala Lumpur and a small town in Mississippi during the Civil War.