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Title: Hombre by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0-380-82224-5 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 05 March, 2002 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: His Best Western
Comment: No writer chronicles the battles of misfits, underdogs, and renegades like Leonard. In Hombre, Leonard captures a land where the rich, the poor, and the wandering come together as equals __ and where honor is earned by courage and by blood.
Rating: 4
Summary: Classic Elmore Leonard Western
Comment: After having read almost all of Leonard's crime novels, I finally got to this, his best known western. Written in 1961, it was made into the 1967 Paul Newman movie. I was surprised at the differences here compared to recent Leonard novels. The anti-hero, John Russell, is a young white man raised by Apaches in 19th century Arizona. He inherits some property which requires taking a trip away from the reservation. On this trip a stage coach robbery goes wrong and Russell fights the robbers to the death. Like all other Leonard protagonists, Russell is a man of action and of few words. Unlike other Leonard heroes, he inexplicably sacrifices himself at the end of the book to save a women that neither he nor the others really care about. Chili Palmer, Frank Ryan, or Ernest Stickley would have never done a thing like that. Leonard employs an unusual device of having one of the minor characters narrate the story. Later books have either an omniscient narrator of the protaganist's inner dialogue serving as narrator. Very good but not as much fun as more recent hits.
Rating: 5
Summary: HOMBRE IS THE MAN!
Comment: John Russell was not welcome to ride in the coach with the other passengers but they all want him after they are robbed and left to walk. Th story tells of their trying to get away and the outlws trying to catch them. Enough action to keep you interested. If everyone had been like Hombre the book would have ended differently. Russell was a great character. I liked his Indian ways and his quite silent wat if getting things done. The book is a fairly quick read and will hold you attention. As Henry Mendez says in the book, "Take a good look at Russell. You will never see another one like him as long as you live."
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Title: The Bounty Hunters by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0380822253 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 02 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Valdez Is Coming by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0380822237 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 05 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Escape from Five Shadows by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060013486 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 30 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Law at Randado by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060013494 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 02 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Last Stand at Saber River by Elmore Leonard ISBN: 0060013524 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 03 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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