The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

clint eastwood tells us that the only authentically original american art forms are jazz, blues, and the western. lemme up the ante and say that no other form reveals more about america than the western. and the great practitioners of the form (ford, mann, hawks, boetticher, peckinpah, leone, eastwo......more

A wide ranging collection of westerns where you never quite know what you're going to get, though it's guaranteed to be gritty and full of dangerous lowlifes deserving of the grim fate they're likely to meet. The best of these, like Three-Ten to Yuma, are taut and suspenseful, full of dread and anti......more

This is an abridged version of the book having only 11 stories in it. I don't think they're abridged, though. Read by Tom Wopath, Henry Rollins & David Strather & William Atherton. (I wrote those names down as I heard them. I have no idea if they're spelled correctly, but all of them were excellent......more

Full disclosure: I'm a fan of Westerns-- especially the classic films and books. So, too, am I a fan of Elmore Leonard. Consequently, I was jazzed to read this complete collection of his early publications in the genre. Unfortunately, there is a certain green, unpolished quality to much of his early......more

Calore, polvere, cespugli spinosi Mi sono trovata nel Far West perchè avevo voglia di evasione ed è stata una lettura ottima, superiore alle aspettative. Ogni racconto è costruito con cura, dal punto di vista della verosimiglianza della storia e dei caratteri dei personaggi, che sono spesso molto ben......more