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Elmore Leonard

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Elmore Leonard

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Elmore Leonard has been called the greatest living writer of crime fiction. His novels have been compared to the works of the acknowledged masters of the genre, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler. ... Read more

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Elmore (John) Leonard, (Jr.)

4,144 words, approx. 14 pages

Dubbed "The Dickens of Detroit" by Time magazine in 1984, Elmore Leonard has written more than thirty novels, as well as many short stories and screenplays. He began his writing career in the early 1... Read more

Elmore (John) Leonard, (Jr.)

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Many critics consider Elmore Leonard to be the best living writer of crime fiction in the United States. Since the mid 1980s he has enjoyed enormous commercial success, and his style has influenced a ... Read more

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Critical Review by Ed McBain

844 words, approx. 3 pages

In the following review, McBain provides a primarily favorable assessment of Out of Sight. The irony of it is surely not wasted on Elmore Leonard, himself a master of irony. After years of indifferent... Read more

Critical Review by Ralph Lombreglia

800 words, approx. 3 pages

In the following review, Lombreglia faults Out of Sight as unrealistic. The oldest unsolved mystery on the books, human love, is the case to crack in Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard's new novel, i... Read more

Critical Review by Annie Gottlieb

2,128 words, approx. 8 pages

In the following review, Gottlieb responds negatively to Out of Sight. To put spoken language into writing is a mere trick. And I found it—nobody else. Making spoken words go in literature isn... Read more

Critical Review by William Fiennes

945 words, approx. 4 pages

In the following review, Fiennes offers a mixed assessment of Out of Sight. Forty-eight-year-old Jack Foley is in prison for robbing more banks 'than anyone in the computer', has an ex-w... Read more

Critical Review by Peter Matthews

2,608 words, approx. 9 pages

In the following positive review, Matthews praises Soderbergh's film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Out of Sight. It's commonly asserted that pulp fiction is more readily tr... Read more

Critical Review by John Wrathall

574 words, approx. 2 pages

In the following review, Wrathall offers a positive assessment of Soderbergh's “hip, cinematic style” in Out of Sight. Like Get Shorty, Out of Sight is adapted from an Elmore Leon... Read more

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