{"product_id":"cooler-than-cool-the-life-and-work-of-elmore-leonard","title":"Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard wrote westerns in the hours around an advertising job. C. M. Kushins traces the sixty years of work that followed, book by book and film by film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReadical Key Points\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA full-length life of Elmore Leonard (1925 to 2013), the crime writer behind \u003cem\u003eGet Shorty\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRaylan\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEdgar Award finalist for Best Critical\/Biographical Work, and a New Yorker best book of the year\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBuilt on interviews with Leonard's family and friends and with actors, producers and directors of the screen adaptations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncludes previously unpublished excerpts from Leonard's unfinished last novel and planned memoir, and covers his drinking and divorces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, 512 pages, Mariner Books, 2025\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKushins starts with the Depression-era outlaw stories that caught Leonard's imagination as a boy, then follows him into advertising in 1950, the westerns he wrote on the side, and his first magazine sale, \u003cem\u003eApache Agent\u003c\/em\u003e, in 1951. The middle of the book turns to his shift into crime fiction after reading George V. Higgins in the early 1970s, the false starts behind \u003cem\u003eGet Shorty\u003c\/em\u003e, and the sometimes contentious traffic between his novels and Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt serves readers of Leonard's novels, writers curious about how he built scenes out of talk, and viewers who met his characters on screen first. Leonard spent a career taking himself out of his sentences; this book puts him back in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eC. M. Kushins is a journalist whose earlier books are biographies of Warren Zevon (\u003cem\u003eNothing's Bad Luck\u003c\/em\u003e) and John Bonham (\u003cem\u003eBeast\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Brand New and Readical Ready.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eReadical™ is an independent bookstore and reading-products brand built around a simple idea: books matter most when what we learn leaves the page and enters our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eApply the Page. Get Readical™.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48026666172565,"sku":"NEW-ING-0063306867","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0800\/5861\/3909\/files\/upload-1789784790487.jpg?v=1789784792","url":"https:\/\/readical.com\/products\/cooler-than-cool-the-life-and-work-of-elmore-leonard","provider":"Readical","version":"1.0","type":"link"}