City Primeval (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elmore Leonard
- First Published: 1980
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: Justice, United States or Americans, Murder or homicide, Police, Good and evil, Mexican Americans, Michigan
- Locales: Detroit, MI
City Primeval is widely regarded as the first book of Leonard's strongest period. As the allusion to the classic 1952 Western film High Noon in the subtitle suggests, the novel marks a conscious adaptation of the characters and themes of Leonard's earlier Westerns to the modern urban settings of his later crime novels. The book's protagonist, Detroit homicide detective Raymond Cruz, is a Texan of Mexican descent who thus has the background appropriate to a Western hero. Leonard describes Cruz's relationship with Clement Mansell, the book's villain, in terms of classic...
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