Rum Punch: A Novel

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Whitall, Susan (August 5, 2013). "Elmore Leonard in hospital recovering from stroke". Entertainment. The Detroit News. Archived from the original on August 24, 2013 . Retrieved August 21, 2013. Leonard believed that his books during the 1980s were becoming more humorous and that he was developing a style that was more free and easy. His own favorites were the Dixie Mafia story Tishomingo Blues (2002) and Freaky Deaky (1988), about ex- hippie criminals. [11] All this came just in time. He’d written one crime novel, “The Big Bounce,” in 1966. Despite Leonard’s bona fides, it was rejected 84 times and didn’t see the light of day until being made into a 1969 movie. For 33 years, Gregg Sutter was author Elmore Leonard’s loyal researcher and assistant (“Elmore’s Legs” - The New Yorker), gathering the reference material and rich visual descriptions that made you feel like you were right there inside Elmore’s stories and their film adaptations.

Mitgang, Herbert (October 23, 1993). "Novelist discovered after 23 books". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 25, 2018 . Retrieved December 2, 2018. I am glad, I am not a screenwriter". British Film Institute. May 9, 2006. Archived from the original on December 5, 2017 . Retrieved December 2, 2018. The 2010–15 FX series Justified was based around the popular Leonard character U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, from the novels Pronto, Riding the Rap, the eponymous Raylan, and the short story "Fire in the Hole".Pesci piccoli, anche se sanguinari e spietati, soldati semplici della mafia, piccoli gangster del ghetto che se la tirano da padrini, trafficanti di armi o droga, gente ai margini dai giri grossi. Gente qualsiasi, ordinary people dell’underworld.

Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose. I recall someone saying how Elmore Leonard isn't old school `cause he built the school. Very true. My favorite Elmore Leonard novels are Tishomingo Blues and Pagan Babies; Rum Punch is my very favorite, thus this review. Also, in addition to reviewing the book, let me plug the audiobook read by Joe Mantegna. The voice of Joe Mantegna is pitch-perfect, his rhythm and inflections capturing each of the characters, male and female, as well as the mood and charged atmosphere of the entire story. Stim, Richard (August–September 2007). "Have I told you about my Elmore Leonard audiobook collection?" (PDF). AudiOpinion. AudioFile. pp.14–15. Archived (PDF) from the original on November 26, 2012.King, Stephen (February 1, 2007). "The Tao of Steve". Entertainment Weekly (published August 8, 2003). Archived from the original on March 15, 2011 . Retrieved August 21, 2013. Jesse Thorn (July 3, 2007). "Podcast: TSOYA: Elmore Leonard". Maximum Fun (Podcast). Archived from the original on January 6, 2018 . Retrieved August 21, 2013.

Today would have been Elmore’s 91st Birthday.. What makes this birthday different, it is the day he is finally buried. Elmore died over three years ago, on August 20, 2013, but it was his wish to be buried in Greenwood Cemetery in Birmingham, Michigan, a little over a mile from his house in Bloomfield Township. It took three years, but Greenwood finally opened up new plots, allowing Elmore to have his wish and be buried there. Spokeswoman Deb Seager of Grove Atlantic, Harrison’s publisher, told The Associated Press that Harrison died Saturday at his home in Patagonia, Arizona. Seager did not know the cause of death. Harrison’s wife of more than 50 years, Linda King Harrison, died last fall. Produced by MGM Television, the Original Series is a Dark Comedy Slated to Start Production Fall 2016

The characters Ordell Robbie, Louis Gara and Melanie Ralston first appeared in Leonard's novel The Switch, which itself has also been adapted as a film, Life of Crime, first shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, with Robbie played by Mos Def and Gara portrayed by John Hawkes.