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"Al Rosen was doing just fine, hiding out in Israel, until he decided to play Good Samaritan and rescue some elderly tourists from a hotel fire"--Cover p. [4].
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Classical in form, grave, effortless and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Elmore Leonard
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 267
- Publisher
- Secker and Warburg, Books on Tape, Inc., Chivers Large print (Chivers, Wi
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781407215099
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“THIS IS THE NEWS STORY that appeared the next day, in the Sunday edition of the Detroit Free Press, page one: FOUR TOURISTS DIE IN ISRAELI HOTEL FIRE TEL AVIV, March 20 (AP)-A predawn fire gutted an eight-story resort hotel Saturday, killing four tourists and injuring 46 others, including guests who leaped from upper-story windows to escape the flames.”
Elmore John Leonard Jr. was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, many of which have been adapted into motion pictures. *--Wikipedia*
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