Get Shorty
Get Shorty by Elmore Leonard is a reprint edition published by Harper Collins on June 4, 2002, featuring 384 pages in English. This novel follows the misadventures of Chili Palmer, a Florida mob loan shark who travels to Hollywood in pursuit of a deadbeat client. As he navigates the chaotic world of film-making, Chili finds himself drawn into the industry, blending crime and comedy in a narrative that showcases Leonard’s distinctive prose style.
Readers will encounter a vibrant depiction of Hollywood’s eccentricities through Chili’s interactions and schemes. The story captures the essence of the film industry while exploring themes of ambition and deception. With its engaging plot and memorable characters, Get Shorty stands as a notable entry in Leonard’s extensive body of work, appealing to fans of fiction that intertwines crime with humor.
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“A Hollywood hit….Taut, inimitable prose and characters who could have only sprung from the mind of Elmore Leonard.”
—Detroit News
The Chicago Tribune has dubbed Elmore Leonard, “the coolest, hottest writer in America.” In the same league as the legendary great ones—John D. MacDonald, Dashiell Hammett, James M. Cain—the “King Daddy of crime writers” (Seattle Times) demonstrates his remarkable mastery with Get Shorty, one of the most adored of his forty-plus novels. The basis of the hit movie starring John Travolta and Danny DeVito, Get Shorty chronicles the over-the-top, sometimes violent Hollywood misadventures of a Florida mob loan shark who chases a deadbeat client all the way to Tinseltown and decides to stick around and make movies. Get Shorty’s shylock protagonist, Chili Palmer, is a truly inspired creation—as memorable as another unforgettable Leonard hero, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of the hit TV series Justified—and readers will relish his moves and countermoves in this electrifying, funny, bullet train-paced winner from “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever!” (New York Times Book Review)
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