Hints and tips:
...I’m more of an Elmore Leonard guy.” I wonder out loud if there are any Elmore Leonard books on Audible (there are several) and whether Barrett would choose to listen to them....
...The author has said the book is an elegy “to the worst of who I am as a man”, and with dialogue as scabrous as anything by Elmore Leonard, Cosby is refreshingly ambiguous about his conflicted hero....
...Edward Lee Elmore is both – an African American with an IQ of 61 who was 14 when he dropped out of school in the fifth grade, still reading at second-grade level....
...and “40 Miles of Bad Road” were as dusty and vibrant as an Elmore Leonard short story....
...His prose could be muscular and sparse in the manner of Hemingway, and the dialogue, at its best, positively crackles, as in the books of another master, Elmore Leonard....
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