Glitz. Part 34

Lawrence Block "First-rate . . . By any standard, 'Dutch' Leonard is a rare find. . . . Elmore Leonard's world is like no other in literature, and there's no better example than Glitz Glitz."

Bergen Record "Leonard has learned a thing or two about getting the reader's full attention. . . . You almost have to read it twice-the first time fast to find out what happens, the second time to savor it. . . . So smooth is the weld between action, character, and dialogue that one hesitates to try to crack it open with a.n.a.lysis. The talk is so true and tough and dirty that it sounds as if it had been wiretapped; the people are bizarre in a way that is absolutely inarguable; the action gathers speed because it almost invariably surprises us, and when we do antic.i.p.ate a confrontation, it's always better than we imagined it. . . . Though every tough-guy writer from Ernest Hemingway to George V. Higgins has helped to blaze the trail Mr. Leonard travels, he's brought the sound of the American vernacular to a place it's never been before."

New York Times "The prose [is] fresh and true."

Was.h.i.+ngton Post Book World "A master of narrative . . . A poet of the vernacular . . . Leonard paints an intimate, precise, funny, frightening, and irresistible mural of the American underworld."

The New Yorker "Entertaining . . . More action than Riders of the Purple Sage Riders of the Purple Sage . . . Leonard's star is still rising. . . . The complex . . . Leonard's star is still rising. . . . The complex Glitz Glitz plot works itself out to the satisfaction of just about everyone except the losers. . . . Elmore Leonard grinds out books at an accelerating pace by following a complex and demanding formula. It is called good writing." plot works itself out to the satisfaction of just about everyone except the losers. . . . Elmore Leonard grinds out books at an accelerating pace by following a complex and demanding formula. It is called good writing."

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette "Glitz is nasty. . . . And yet there is a sweetness and rightness about Leonard's touch and timing. And his women are great. . . . Read it carefully, and you will come away knowing something about . . . Leonard's craft. His strongest hand is comedy. The humor is in 'what they talk like' and in situations that involve a nice blend of the improbable and the inevitable." is nasty. . . . And yet there is a sweetness and rightness about Leonard's touch and timing. And his women are great. . . . Read it carefully, and you will come away knowing something about . . . Leonard's craft. His strongest hand is comedy. The humor is in 'what they talk like' and in situations that involve a nice blend of the improbable and the inevitable."

Christian Science Monitor "The guy keeps turning these things out, and d.a.m.ned if everyone doesn't read better than the last."

New York Daily News "The King Daddy of crime novelists."

Seattle Times "Leonard gets better and better and better. He makes the rest of us mystery writers green with envy."

Tony Hillerman "Elmore Leonard is one of the best active writers of suspense fiction. . . . Glitz Glitz will be welcomed by his fans, and would be a good introduction to Leonard for those unfortunates who have not yet made his acquaintance. . . . As usual, Leonard's characters are expertly drawn, if sparingly portrayed, but he can capture a person's essence in a few words and his ability to write dialogue that captures the way people speak is matched only by George V. Higgins." will be welcomed by his fans, and would be a good introduction to Leonard for those unfortunates who have not yet made his acquaintance. . . . As usual, Leonard's characters are expertly drawn, if sparingly portrayed, but he can capture a person's essence in a few words and his ability to write dialogue that captures the way people speak is matched only by George V. Higgins."

United Press International "The finest thriller writer alive."

Village Voice "Elmore Leonard is the best crud and crime writer going. . . . His strengths are lively incident, sense of place and milieu, and dirty demonic talk."

Boston Globe "No one writes better dialogue. No one conveys society's seedier or marginal characters more convincingly. . . . Leonard's sardonic view of the world proves immensely entertaining, and not a little thought-provoking."

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