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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he learned to his close analysis of the writer's long life and prodigious output: 45 published novels, 39 published and unpublished short stories, and numerous essays written over the course of six decades.

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Rzepka's close reading of Leonard's fiction is an insightful, thorough and timely addition to scholarship on the author. Library Journal Few people are as versed in Elmore Leonard's world as Charles Rzepka. BU Today

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Being Cool
2. Being Other(s)
3. Plays Well with Others
4. Choruses
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Being Cool

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 10 November 2017
      ISBN-13 9781421424040
      978-1421424040
      ISBN-10 1421424045
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      Literary studies: fiction Popular culture

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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he learned to his close analysis of the writer's long life and prodigious output: 45 published novels, 39 published and unpublished short stories, and numerous essays written over the course of six decades.

      Trade Review
      Rzepka's close reading of Leonard's fiction is an insightful, thorough and timely addition to scholarship on the author. Library Journal Few people are as versed in Elmore Leonard's world as Charles Rzepka. BU Today

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      1. Being Cool
      2. Being Other(s)
      3. Plays Well with Others
      4. Choruses
      Conclusion
      Notes
      Works Cited
      Index

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