Get Shorty (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
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- Author: Elmore Leonard
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Crime or criminals, Novelists, Alcohol, Drugs, Drug trafficking or dealing, Hollywood, Filmmaking or filmmakers, Cocaine, Technology, Stars, Tobacco, Telephones
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, Las Vegas, NV, Miami, FL
Leonard drew upon his personal experiences with the film industry for Get Shorty, including modeling Michael Weir, the actor whose short height and large talent and ego provide the title, on Dustin Hoffman, who had been in line to play the lead in a film version of Leonard's LaBrava (1983). The novel transplants one of his typical self-reliant tough guys, loan shark Chili Palmer, from the Miami criminal underworld to Hollywood. The plot begins, after a series of deftly handled flashbacks, with Palmer's assignment to collect a debt from Leo Devoe, a dry cleaner who...
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