Best Elmore Leonard Western Novels. His 1985 novel glitz was his first major bestseller, followed by a string of much acclaimed novels including out of sight, get shorty, rum punch and cuba libre. All could be called genre pieces — leonard certainly didn't shrink from the label — and the best of them, including the novels hombre and valdez is coming and stories such as 3:10 to yuma are now collected in one handsome volume from the library of america.
Four were published in the 1950s, ( the bounty hunters, the law at randado?, escape from five shadows? Collecting money for the mob isn’t too different from any other job, reckons. Director:martin ritt|stars:paul newman, fredric march, richard boone, diane cilento.
The book includes half his western novels and a strong sampling of the stories, from his first published, “trail of the apache,” to the famous “3:10 to yuma” and later “the tonto woman.” (for a full sense of leonard’s evolution, also seek out the 2004 book, the complete western stories of elmore leonard).
Elmore leonard is an american novelist as well as a screenwriter. Elmore leonard is an american novelist as well as a screenwriter. Many of his novels have been adapted to film, including mr. Westerns last stand at saber river | hombre | valdez is coming | forty lashes less one | eight short stories more edited by terrence rafferty