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Those who enjoy Leonard's terse two-fisted style will savor his early work with Westerns. Cleverly cast with skilled actors and produced with sensitivity and style, this collection fits in any audiobook aficionado's collection. David Straitharn paints vivid and passionate word pictures, pushing the emotional envelope; Henry Rollins brings his burly reading style to the fore; William Atherton delivers a whiff of aural mesquite and rawhide while Tom Wopat lends a tough warmth to the proceedings. Each reader tackles his tale with professional zeal, and the marriage of voice to text makes this a consistently good listen. Leonard fans will be intrigued by signs of his future hipness. D.J.B. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine--
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Before he brilliantly traversed the gritty landscapes of underworld Detroit and Miami, Elmore Leonard wrote breathtaking adventures set in America's nineteenth-century western frontier—elevating a popular genre with his now-trademark twisting plots, rich characterizations, and scalpel-sharp dialogue.
No author has ever written more evocatively of the dusty, gutsy heyday of the American West than Elmore Leonard. This complete collection of his thirty-one Western tales will thrill lovers of the genre, his die-hard fans, and everyone in between. From his very first story ever published—"The Trail of the Apache"—through five decades of classic Western tales, The Complete Western Stories of Elmore Leonard demonstrates the superb talent for language and gripping narrative that has made Leonard one of the most acclaimed and influential writers of our time.