Out of Sight Summary
Elmore Leonard

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

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

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 indif... Read more

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 ... Read more

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... Read more