Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard
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Get Shorty
A Novel

Author: Elmore Leonard

Narrator: Joe Mantegna

Unabridged: 8 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 04/01/2025

Synopsis

New York Times Bestselling Author“Brilliant...impressive...superb.” —Washington Post Book World“A Hollywood hit….Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard.” —Detroit NewsThe classic New York Times bestseller that introduced Chili Palmer—a masterful social comedy that happens to be about criminals (and other fast operators).The Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, “the coolest, hottest writer in America.” In the same league as the legendary great ones—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain—the “King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) demonstrates his remarkable mastery with Get Shorty, one of the most adored of his forty-plus novels. The basis of the hit movie starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito, Get Shorty chronicles the over-the-top, sometimes violent Hollywood misadventures of a Florida mob loan shark who chases a deadbeat client all the way to Tinseltown and decides to stick around and make movies. Get Shorty’s shylock protagonist, Chili Palmer, is a truly inspired creation—as memorable as another unforgettable Leonard hero, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified—and readers will relish his moves and countermoves in this electrifying, funny, bullet train-paced winner from “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” (New York Times Book Review)

About Elmore Leonard

Elmore Leonard wrote more than forty books during his long career, including the bestsellers Raylan, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool, Get Shorty, and Rum Punch, as well as the acclaimed collection When the Women Come Out to Dance, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Many of his books have been made into movies, including Get Shorty and Out of Sight. The short story “Fire in the Hole,” and three books, including Raylan, were the basis for the FX hit show Justified. Leonard received the Lifetime Achievement Award from PEN USA and the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America. He died in 2013.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on December 13, 2022

Chili Palmer, #1: Connected loan shark Chilli Palmer tracks a loser debtor producer to Hollywood, checks out the lifestyle, and decides to stay. Thinking about his life, he feels that he has a great idea for movie and sets out to get it done, the Chilli way. A nicely constructed merging of organised......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on June 04, 2015

Elmore Leonard had a bad Hollywood experience in the mid-‘80s of working on a film adaptation of LaBrava with Dustin Hoffman. Leonard did multiple unpaid rewrites at the actor’s request, but then Hoffman bailed on the project after six months of meetings leaving Leonard with nothing to show for his......more

Goodreads review by James on April 12, 2023

Get Shorty is one of Elmore Leonard's most entertaining novels with a cast populated by a group of great characters. Heading the group is a Miami loan shark named Chili Palmer who winds up in Hollywood while chasing down a guy who owes him money and who has done a great disappearing act. Once in Holl......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on December 12, 2018

The plot is both simplish & absurd--the showcase in this baby is truly its array of characters. Without so much description of their personas as actual lines of dialogue that exposes them richly, Leonard pretty much knew this one had Hollywood adaptation written all over it. Heck, the novel is all a......more

Goodreads review by Derrick on March 24, 2021

Elmore Leonard is such an amazing author! His books are so much fun to read. It's been awhile since I last read anything thing of his. This story was a refreshing breath of fresh air in the sense that the writing and storytelling are so tremendous. I absolutely love Leonard's somewhat minimalistic a......more

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