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Cargando... LaBrava (1983)por Elmore Leonard
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I thought I had read this in the past, but couldn't find a record of it in my Library Thing book list. This was a weird one for me. The first half of the book it seemed like nothing was happening. Of course the writing and dialogue was flowing as usual. But, everything was a set up for the last half of the book. ( ) Outstanding convoluted crime caper. La Brava, an ex secret service fellow, now sensitive photographer to the street people of miami, gets mixed up with older starlet that he idolized as a 12 year old. He's seen all her movies and we play a game where she is acting out parts of the noir-ish movies in this story. Without giving it away, the starlet is mixed up with a big bad boy / man from the Bayou. That manchild makes a Cuban boatlifter friend and recruits him to assist in a complicated plan to bilk 600K out of a pleasant older guy (ex mobster). Lots going on! a bit of John MacDonald updated and maybe without as much of the self satisfaction of Travis. Which is to say- great book, great story. Perhaps a tad tiring with the nostalgic play on old movies, but as i am susceptible that kind of thing, i can live with it. If you like hard-boiled detective stuff, this is for you. Leonard even throws in a faded 1950s movie star so you get a bit of film noir along the way. Halfway through, there’s a twist which isn’t entirely unforeseeable, and it all reads pretty well. While it is a novel that very accurately captures its era, this in many respects is a shame. Misogyny is rampant with all the women being represented as sexual objects in one way or another and all the men represented as macho in one way or … well pretty much one way. For these reasons, I didn’t find it too pleasant a read and the novel will not age well. Having read this and City Primeval, I’m not sure that Leonard, like Tartt, has more than one novel to write. It’s not a novel I need to read more than twice and I won’t be expanding my literary horizons with more of his oeuvre. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard delivers his trademark blend of action, sex, violence, humor, and hard-boiled suspense in this thrilling crime classic, LaBrava. Joe La Brava is an ex-Secret Service agent who gets mixed up in a South Miami Beach scam involving a redneck former cop, a Cuban hit man who moonlights as a go-go dancer, and a one-time movie queen whose world is part make-believe, part deadly dangerous. Fast-moving, pitch-perfect, and utterly irresistible, LaBrava is, "vintage Leonard: a blend of the true-to-life and the totally make-believe, the cinematic and the suspenseful, the world we know and a whole lot of worlds we're glad we don't. Only Leonard can concoct such a potent cocktail." (USA Today). No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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