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Indlæser... Ung mand med pistol (2005)af Elmore Leonard
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. En los Estados Unidos de la depresión y la ley seca de los años treinta asistimos a un verdadero duelo en busca de la fama entre el autodestructivo Jack Belmont, ávido por convertirse en el "enemigo público número uno", y Carl Webster, un joven policía reconocido por su frialdad y su capacidad calculadora; las mujeres fatales, el petróleo, el sonido de las metralletas y la música de Louis Armstrong sierven de marco a una acción trepidante desarrollada a través de unos diálogos irónicos y corrosivos.
In ''The Hot Kid," Leonard merges the Western and the urban crime novel. The result is a rousing tale of desperadoes robbing banks, hiding out in whorehouses, and shooting peace officers during the rat-a-tat-take-that-you-dirty-rat early '30s, when Charles ''Pretty Boy" Floyd supposedly once took his family to town so they could watch him rob a bank, a Harvey Girl waitress would ''get recognized on the street like a movie star," and glimpsing Amelia Earhart in a Kansas City hotel was a possibility. Far from being an exercise in nostalgia, this book reinvigorates what Mr. Leonard might have experienced at his most impressionable: the mythmaking process that turned commonplace crooks into figures of folklore. And he is able to bring a remarkable form of double vision to the events described here without sacrificing the deadpan verve that is his trademark. Tilhører serienCarl Webster (1) HæderspriserDistinktioner
Having made his name by killing notorious bank robber Emmet Long, Deputy U.S. Marshal Carl Webster embarks on a dangerous search for Jack Belmont, the son of an oil millionaire who dreams of becoming Public Enemy Number One. Ingen biblioteksbeskrivelser fundet. |
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