false<![CDATA[Get Shorty]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177426597m/702539.jpg70253929<I>Nobody</I> writes openings like Elmore Leonard. Case in point: "When Chili first came to Miami Beach twelve years ago they were having one of their off-and-on cold winters: thirty-four degrees the day he met Tommy Carlo for lunch at Vesuvio's on South Collins and had his leather jacket ripped off." You need to know about this because you need to know why there's bad blood between Chili Palmer and Ray Bones, the guy who stole his coat and is now his boss--and has ordered him to collect $4,200 from a dead guy. Except the guy didn't die; he went to Las Vegas with $300,000. So Chili goes to Las Vegas, one thing leads to another, and pretty soon he's in Los Angeles, hanging out with a movie producer named Harry Zimm and learning what it takes to be a player in Hollywood. <p> <I>Get Shorty</I> is classic Elmore Leonard: While other people write "crime fiction," Leonard's come up with a masterful social comedy that happens to be about criminals (and other fast operators). He's a master of snappy dialogue <I>and</I> dizzying plot twists. The best parts of <I>Get Shorty</I> move along so briskly you almost forget there's somebody with a firm control over the story. And you'll be rooting for Chili to get the money, the girl, <I>and</I> the studio deal. <I>--Ron Hogan</I>2504855book1990Get Shortytotal:1437|5:259|4:620|3:477|2:69|1:12|1437535618196000falsefalseMon Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008Wed Jan 07 15:35:18 -0800 2009Wed Jan 07 15:37:23 -0800 2009
STOP SMILING interview with Get Shorty author Elmore Leonard:
Elmore Leonard’s voice arrives like curling smoke. It drifts down the phone line from Detroit and floats around me in Sydney for quite a while. “I was in Australia a few years ago,” Leonard says. Then his story beg...more...]]>
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30falsefalseTue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002Mon Mar 16 10:11:02 -0700 2009Mon Mar 16 10:11:02 -0700 2009 My parents had a lot of these kicking around the house, so there was a period where I picked them up whenever I ran out books.]]>
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