Hot Kid CD
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (620 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060789980 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 122 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
You're a nice-looking boy, wear a clean shirt every day, keep your hair combed where'd you get your ugly disposition? Your mama blames me for not being around, so then I give you things you get in trouble, I get you out. We’re in the early 30's here, just as a dust cloud is rolling across the Oklahoma plains--the days of Bonnie and Clyde, when gangsters captured the public attention, and Leonard makes good use of place and time. His minor characters are much more interesting than his protagonists, especially the women, and the writing shows occasional flashes of his trademarked ironic humor. Marshal Carl
Carl Webster, the hot kid of the marshals service, is polite, respects his elders, and can shoot a man driving away in an Essex at four hundred yards. With a Winchester.Jack Belmont wants to rob banks, become public enemy number one, and show his dad, an oil millionaire, he can make it on his own.With tommy guns, hot cars, speakeasies, cops and robbers, and a former lawman who believes in vigilante justice, all played out against the flapper period of gun molls and Prohibition, The Hot Kid is Elmore Leonard -- the true master -- at his best.Performed by Arliss Howard. Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, those guys.Carl wants to be America's most famous lawman. He shot his first felon when he was fifteen years old. Carl works out of the Tulsa, Oklahoma, federal courthouse in the 1930s, the period of America's most notorious bank robbers
Bang Bang Crime Novel Set Amidst Oklahoma's Oil Boom Richard Seeley This is one of many novels that will cause the late Elmore Leonard's readers to miss him all the more. Set in the Pretty Boy Floyd era of the Oklahoma oil boom, the story pits Carl Webster, a newly minted hot shot young deputy U.S. marshal, against the bad guys who plied their nasty trade between Tulsa and Kans. the one they should have made a tv series nothing against Raylon Givens, but Marshall Carlos Webster is a man with a story! one of EL's longer novels, it's a bit episodic, with a string of intertwining conflicts. this, of course, gives EL plenty of opportunity to develop some interesting characters--rotten hearts, gorgeous molls, and idiot gangsters--w. It's written by Elmore Leonard. What more do you need to know? John Kotula Elmore Leonard tells a great story here. He tells it clearly and engagingly, effortlessly presenting wonderful characters, period details, and plenty of action. At the same time, he is commenting on the all the richness of story telling; how to tell a story, what to put in what to leave out, what kind of langua