STEPHEN KING: Road Dogs starts good; gets a whole lot better...

Cold, blue steel smile , è una lunga recensione del RE a Road Dogs di ELMORE LEONARD, pubblicata anche su Repubblica il 24 maggio scorso con il titolo DIVERTIRSI CON I CRIMINALI ECCO L' ARTE DI LEONARD in occasione dell'uscita del romanzo (Einaudi, trad. Luca Conti) in Italia

Scrive, tra l'altro, King: 
Aspiring novelists who want to understand that hoary old writing seminar dictum, "Show, don't tell," would do well to save their tuition and read Leonard instead. It's cheaper and a lot more fun.
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The fun in the best of his novels [Road Dogs] - and this is the best in years - stems from the fact that Leonard starts turning the screws on page one and never stops. The dialogue crackles; the supporting characters are crisply drawn; and the story achieves almost instant escape velocity.