a new take on the Western…

Book review:

The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard

New York: William Morris, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2004

528 pages

I’m late to the game of reading Elmore Leonard, and I confess right here that I’m not a big fan of the broadly defined “Western” genre, excepting of course the “must reads” like “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” and “To Build a Fire” and “The Call of the Wild.”

Even so, I’m engaged with Leonard’s short story style, and I plan to return to The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard—his 30 Western shorts including possibly familiar titles like “Three-Ten to Yuma” and “Moment of Vengeance” and “Only Good Ones.”

The prose is direct, realistic, and dialogue-rich, and there is legitimate suspense that gives individuality to each story.

Try a few.

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“…watchers in the crystal sphere…”

”Night watch,” a poem

“…friends who pass the time…”

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