Name: Picket Line and Other Stories (en Inglés)
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Author: Elmore Leonard

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Picket Line and Other Stories (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Penguin Classics

Autor

Elmore Leonard

Año

2025

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

112

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.6x12.9x0.9 cm

ISBN13

9780241755396

Picket Line and Other Stories (en Inglés)

Elmore Leonard (Autor) · Penguin Classics · Tapa Blanda

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These three stories--''Picket Line'', ''Chick Killer'' and ''Ice Man''--show Elmore Leonard at his most terse and harsh, able to conjure up a sense of profound unease and injustice in just a few words.

The main story ''Picket Line'' describes a tense stand-off between migrant workers in Texas, police and labour organisers in a brilliantly orchestrated series of arguments and negotiations, with the potential for terrible violence lurking in every exchange. ''Chick Killer'' and ''Ice Man'', set in Florida and California are two riffs on the thing that made Leonard great: his extraordinary ear for creating dialogues of negotiation, where the stakes could not be higher for the loser.

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\nThree stories - the never-before-published 'Picket Line', along with 'Chick Killer' and 'Ice Man' - showing Elmore Leonard at his most terse and thrilling 'Like all of Leonard’s books, Picket Line is a taut and engaging tale. Crime dramas made Leonard famous, but this is a social-justice story. . . . Leonard renders their adventures and their thoughts in spare, elegant, Hemingway-inspired prose. . . . Picket Line builds a convincing portrait of the spirit of a lost, idealistic age. . . . It has the cinematic mastery of scene and dialogue that characterized Leonard’s later works' - Héctor Tobar, The New York TimesThere are some lines you should never cross... Trouble is in the air at Stanzik Farms, Texas. The workers have gone on strike and tensions are threatening to boil over. As secrets come to a head and migrant workers, cops, foremen, agitators and union bosses collide at the picket line, things start to get very rough indeed. Elmore Leonard’s brilliantly orchestrated, never-before-published story Picket Line is accompanied here by two more terse tales of ruthless enforcers and tense stand-offs, riffing on the thing that made him great: his extraordinary ear for dialogue, and for creating situations where the stakes could not be higher for the loser.