Get Shorty (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Elmore Leonard
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The 1980’s
- Setting: Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Miami
- Principal Characters: Chili Palmer, Ray “bones” Barboni, Harry Zimm, Karen Flores, Michael Weir, Ronnie Wingate, Ho Catlett, Leo Devoe
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA
Hollywood is such a perfect setting for an Elmore Leonard novel that his numerous fans will wonder why he waited so long to stake his claim there. Leonard is famous for his convoluted plots shaped by the unpredictability of human character; and no place on earth are people more unpredictable than in Hollywood. As only Southern Californians seem to know, Hollywood is not even Hollywood anymore: it is only a name symbolizing the American film business, a name that suggests incredible wealth and glamour to the rest of the world and looks good on business cards and letterheads....
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