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Article: THE RETURN OF ELMORE LEONARD
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 10, 1988
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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FREAKY DEAKY, by Elmore Leonard. Arbor House/William
Morrow. 341 pp. $18.95.
Elmore Leonard is back, and with a cast of low-life, foul-mouthed
double-crossing creeps
who are up to no good. This is just how you want it to be in the
world of Elmore Leonard.
"Freaky Deaky" is Leonard's 26th novel. He wrote most of the
earlier ones outside the spotlight of literary discussion; he held
the attention of readers who weren't interested in that kind of
thing. Then, with "Stick" and "LaBrava," Leonard became a star, and
he seemed to lose his footing a little, even though nearly every
new book outsold its predecessor. There were points when you could
even say that Leonard was playing ...
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