Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard Paperback - 2017
by Charles J. Rzepka
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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he learned to his close analysis of the writer's long life and prodigious output: 45 published novels, 39 published and unpublished short stories, and numerous essays written over the course of six decades.
Rzepka's close reading of Leonard's fiction is an insightful, thorough and timely addition to scholarship on the author.--Library Journal
Few people are as versed in Elmore Leonard's world as Charles Rzepka.--BU Today
--David Geherin, Eastern Michigan University "BU Today"Details
- Title Being Cool: The Work of Elmore Leonard
- Author Charles J. Rzepka
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 238
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date 2017-09
- ISBN 9781421424040 / 1421424045
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 0.6 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 1.52 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.54
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