{"product_id":"9781598535624","title":"Elmore Leonard: Westerns (LOA #308) : Last Stand at Saber River \/ Hombre \/ Valdez is Coming \/ Forty Lashes Less One \/ stories (Library of America Elmore Leonard Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"One of the great storytellers of our time, Elmore Leonard perfected his craft writing Westerns, a genre he loved. These tales--some adapted into such outstanding films as Hombre, Valdez Is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma--are unexcelled for their wiry tautness, sharp characterizations, and jolts of unexpected humor. For sheer stripped-down narrative tension Leonard never did anything better, and the fresh twists he finds in resolving the genre's classic confrontations reveal a master at work. Whether describing a Civil War veteran coming back to find his homestead stolen (Last Stand at Saber River), a man raised by Apaches treated with contempt by the white settlers who will ultimately depend on him for their survival (Hombre), a local constable, tricked into killing an innocent man, fighting back against the powerful man who duped him (Valdez Is Coming), or two convicts in a desert prison--one African American and the other half-Apache--plotting a near-impossible escape (Forty Lashes Less One), Leonard's westerns are tough, suspenseful, convincing, and beautifully spare in style.\"--\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Library of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50530019049720,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":78.33,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/8208\/6904\/files\/9781598535624-1.jpg?v=1789717453","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.au\/ja\/products\/9781598535624","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}