Rum Punch

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The understanding of a situation can be advanced by bizarre and apparently trivial details, in the tradition of Chesterton's Father Brown. In Mr Paradise, the untrimmed pubic hair of a murder victim acts as a crucial little cog in the powerfully motoring plot. Ezra Pound is crucial to Pronto. In the exuberant Riding the Rap, a kidnap plot is undone by someone noticing some Jell-O. But the unweaving of a dastardly plot is never Leonard's real concern. What interests him more is the evolving of the impossible before everyone's astonished eyes – live alligators delivered to judges as threat, leper colonies ( Bandits), whisky priests, Heinrich Himmler's double ( Up in Honey's Room), and on and on even into the supernatural. Profanity aside, it is all a little bit like Gladys Mitchell on occasion. Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara first appeared in Leonard's 1978 novel, The Switch. Fourteen years later, Ordell has become a thief and minor-league gun runner while Louis is fresh out of prison. Also returning is Ordell's sometime girlfriend, Melanie. Ordell has a big score in mind that involves ripping off the leader of a group of white supremacists, and he recruits his old pal Louis to give him a hand, dangling Melanie before him as bait. Jesse Thorn (July 3, 2007). "Podcast: TSOYA: Elmore Leonard". Maximum Fun (Podcast). Archived from the original on January 6, 2018 . Retrieved August 21, 2013.La musica! Come l’intero film è un omaggio alla blaxploitation: su tutte, questa dal killer refrain: I don’t have a trade,” he told CNN. “I don’t teach or anything. I just love to make up characters and gradually build up a story around them.” For example, he said, the “Out of Sight” character Karen Sisco, later the lead of a TV series, was inspired by a newspaper photograph of a shotgun-toting Miami marshal.

Leonard also received an Edgar Grand Master honor from the Mystery Writers of America and a Peabody Award, among other distinctions. Elmore Leonard's novel "Rum Punch" (1992) tells a tangled tale of crime, violence and double-crossing written in a punchy style with sharp dialogue. The plot is confusing to follow at first, but it works out. Most of the story is set in West Palm Beach, Florida; but the setting is not the primary focus of the book. The main interest of the work lies in the snappy writing and in the characters and their relationships. You run some money you say is mine. What am I suppose to get convicted of?’ Asking what sounded like the key question… I recall someone saying how Elmore Leonard isn't old school `cause he built the school. Very true. My favorite Elmore Leonard novels are Tishomingo Blues and Pagan Babies; Rum Punch is my very favorite, thus this review. Also, in addition to reviewing the book, let me plug the audiobook read by Joe Mantegna. The voice of Joe Mantegna is pitch-perfect, his rhythm and inflections capturing each of the characters, male and female, as well as the mood and charged atmosphere of the entire story.In recent years, literary types took notice. Last year, the National Book Foundation awarded Leonard the 2012 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in recognition of his fiction. Yeah, and you helped her out of that mess. But that ain't what blew the deal, Louis. You know what it was. We tell the man, pay up or you never see your wife again--'cause that's how you do it, right? Then find out he don't want to see her again, even for five minutes? Down there in his Bahama love nest with Melanie? If you can't negotiate with the man, Louis, or threaten him, then you don't have even a chance of making a deal." But Leonard kept his advertising job until 1961, rising at 5 a.m. to write before heading off to work. Despite his output – and more movies, including “Hombre” with Paul Newman – he said he didn’t find his style until reading George V. Higgins’ classic 1970 crime novel, “The Friends of Eddie Coyle.” Higgins’ book, which was turned into a 1973 movie, was almost all dialogue, much of it profane. Whitall, Susan (August 5, 2013). "Elmore Leonard in hospital recovering from stroke". Entertainment. The Detroit News. Archived from the original on August 24, 2013 . Retrieved August 21, 2013. And now Ordell had another scheme. Louis could feel it. The reason they were here watching skinheads and coneheads marching up the street.

He married Beverly Clare Cline in 1949, and they had five children together—two daughters and three sons [17]—before divorcing in 1977. His second marriage in 1979, to Joan Leanne Lancaster (aka Joan Shepard), ended with her death in 1993. Later that same year, he married Christine Kent and they divorced in 2012. [18] [19] Leonard spent the last years of his life with his family in Oakland County, Michigan. He suffered a stroke on July 29, 2013. Initial reports stated that he was recovering, [20] but on August 20, 2013, Leonard passed away at his home in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills of stroke complications. [21] He was 87 years old. [18] [19] One of Leonard's grandchildren is Alex Leonard, the drummer in the Detroit band Protomartyr. [22] Style [ edit ] Elmore Leonard wrote some of the classic crime novels of the twentieth century. Notably inspired by Higgins’s THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE, (1972), Leonard was an adept dialogue writer and master of the tight scene. I’ll use Leonard’s character Raylan Givens, one of his great characters, to exemplify his use of the Western inside the body of crime fiction. Stim, Richard (August–September 2007). "Have I told you about my Elmore Leonard audiobook collection?" (PDF). AudiOpinion. AudioFile. pp.14–15. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 26, 2012. I’d recommend the novel, and it’s an interesting companion piece to the film. Thinking about it now, I got a much better sense of Louis from the book. He’s a mess and a bit of a screw-up, but Leonard clearly feels some affection for him. Louis’s character is written in such a way that elicits some sympathy from the reader, and I didn’t feel quite the same way about him when I saw the film. Maybe de Niro wasn’t right for that role, or perhaps the novel just offers more scope for fleshing out one or two characters like Louis, but that’s one thing I’d highlight.

Raylan is unmistakably a late-period work; its texture is spare, even by Leonard's standards, and it cuts to the chase laconically. The hero-marshal, Raylan, has cropped up before: Leonard likes to save himself time by repeating not just the type of character, but the same character under the same name. Raylan is a drily witty cop who, in another life, might have been a useful and charming armed robber. Like the western sharpshooters of Leonard's first books, his speciality is shooting several villains more or less simultaneously without blinking an eye. This novel, too, carries on with Leonard's trademark energy, including some memorable members of the repulsive Crowe family who have previously turned up as pathetic villains; one here has an unbelievable collection of Elvis memorabilia; the other lives in a house so dirty that he entertains himself by shooting the rats in the kitchen and discussing whether it's worth cooking and eating them afterwards. Like pretty well every Leonard novel, it is a delight. Mitgang, Herbert (October 23, 1993). "Novelist discovered after 23 books". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 25, 2018 . Retrieved December 2, 2018.

I suoi protagonisti più che ricordare Chandler, malinconico e romantico, o lo schizofrenico Thompson, sono sull’impronta dei cowboys che popolano le pagine dei suoi (meravigliosi) racconti e dei suoi (presumo, perché non li ho ancora letti) romanzi western. Now we have a free for all. Everybody now has a scheme to get their hands on the money. All the villains are lying to each other. The police are lying to the villains and the villains are lying to the police. As I have said “it’s a free for all”. What I remember from that time," Louis said, "is wishing I never met Richard. What is it with you and Nazis?" Rum Punch does not sound like writing. That's a fact. A Victorian romance, it isn't. What Rum Punch sounds like - regarding dialogue - is a verbatim transcript from living, breathing people. And the world the characters inhabit is described in enough detail that we get a clear picture.King, Stephen (February 1, 2007). "The Tao of Steve". Entertainment Weekly (published August 8, 2003). Archived from the original on March 15, 2011 . Retrieved August 21, 2013. Hook - 2 stars: "Sunday morning, Ordell took Louis to watch the white-power demonstration in downtown Palm Beach." Yep, and you know this area well as you'll find Mira Lago there today. Yep, that opener is stupendous in timeliness. And the next lines, right out of today's headlines, "Young skinhead Nazis," Ordell said. "Look, even little Nazigirls marching down Worth Avenue. You believe it?" Now, those lines certainly grab your attention (and you either keep reading or you stop). The problem is, these lines have almost nothing to do with the rest of the entire book. Petski, Denise (May 16, 2017). " 'Get Shorty' Gets Premiere Date On Epix; Unveils First-Look Photos". Archived from the original on November 16, 2018 . Retrieved May 16, 2017.