An appreciation of Elmore Leonard’s laconic ability to capture how American low-life looked and sounded.
ALTHOUGH the death of the American writer Elmore Leonard – last Tuesday, aged 87, in Detroit, from complications from a recent stroke – is certainly a matter for sadness and regret, the writer would not want to be responsible for anyone speaking of the news “sadly” or “regretfully”.
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