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Chargement... The Hot Kid (original 2005; édition 2006)par Elmore Leonard
Information sur l'oeuvreThe Hot Kid par Elmore Leonard (2005) Books Read in 2013 (957) Chargement...
Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 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. Appartient à la sérieCarl Webster (1) Prix et récompensesDistinctions
The Hot Kid takes listeners back to the 1930s, when everyone dreamed of being a larger-than-life hero--or villain. Ultra-cool U.S. Marshal Carl Webster thrives on taking down notorious crooks. His latest adversary is the wicked Jack Belmont, renegade son of an oil tycoon. Each time Carl and Jack meet, the tommy guns blaze--and their legend grows. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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