Being Cool - The Work of Elmore Leonard

An in-depth look into the life and work of the man who defined "cool¿ for crime fiction, Elmore Leonard.

About the author

Charles J. Rzepka is a professor of English at Boston University. He is the author of Inventions and Interventions: Selected Studies in Romantic and American Literature, History, and Culture; Detective Fiction; Sacramental Commodities: Gift, Text, and the Sublime in De Quincey; and The Self as Mind: Vision and Identity in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats.

Summary

Rzepka draws on more than twelve hours of personal interviews with Leonard and applies what he learned to his close analysis of the writer's long life and prodigious output: 45 published novels, 39 published and unpublished short stories, and numerous essays written over the course of six decades.

Product details

• Authors: Charles J. Rzepka, Charles J. (Boston University) Rzepka
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9781421424040
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2404-0
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Englisch, English, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form