Elmore Leonard: The Complete Western Stories [2007] paperback Condition:Very Good and the Man Booker International

and the Man Booker International prize

He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and their effects on the earth

a vagrancy charge and a trip back to the line

Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years

and the family

Elmore Leonard: The Complete Western Stories [2007] paperback Condition:Very Good and the Man Booker InternationalA bull's eye of a short fiction collection that spans the master's career. In 1950, fresh out of college and keen to make his name as a writer, Elmore Leonard decided he needed to pick a market, a big one, which would give him a better chance to be published while he learned to write. In choosing between crime and Westerns, the latter had an irresistible pull Leonard loved movies set in the West. As he researched deeper into settings, Arizona in the