Posts Tagged ‘ Collected ’

Louis L’Amour’s world is built on those dramatic moments when men and women cast their fears, doubts, and pasts behind them and plunge into the unknown–into split-second decisions with life-and-death consequences. Nowhere is that more evident than in this latest collection of stories set on the American frontier. Here L’Amour takes us...
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From Booklist L’Amour published 90 novels, 27 short story collections, a memoir, 2 nonfiction books, and even a volume of poetry. He is the only novelist to win both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. This is the second volume of his western...
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Review “L’Amour never writes with less than a saddle creak in his sentences and more often with a desert heatwave boiling up from a sunbaked paragraph. A master storyteller…. for reading under the stars.”—Kirkus Reviews  –This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition. This third...
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One of America’s most beloved storytellers, Louis L’Amour’s vibrant tales of adventure bring the American West to life. Now, in this sixth volume of collected short stories, L’Amour takes us beyond the frontier with thirty-three gripping stories of crime, sports, and the murky world where the two often meet. From suspenseful whodunits...
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From Booklist The spate of previously uncollected L’Amour short stories that have surfaced recently reveal L’Amour’s broad talent and ability to master every genre from mystery to sports to mainstream fiction. But when readers think of L’Amour, they still think westerns, from Hondo (1953) to the Sackett...
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From Publishers Weekly The fourth volume of the late L’Amour’s short stories takes the author out of his familiar American frontier setting and into desolate and dangerous locales around the world, from “a narrow fjord at the end of the earth” on the southern coast of Chile...
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A childless couple sleeps in on Judgment Day; a family tries to cope with the loss of a patriarch and attempted stand-up comedy; obedience school for a new pet leads to obesity and a funeral; a spy as a roommate makes dating difficult. In each of these captivating stories the characters...
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A childless couple sleeps in on Judgment Day; a family tries to cope with the loss of a patriarch and attempted stand-up comedy; obedience school for a new pet leads to obesity and a funeral; a spy as a roommate makes dating difficult. In each of these captivating stories the characters...
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Review “As we witness Lewis develop we find that these volumes are working as a kind of unconscious autobiography.” — Books & Culture The life and mind of C. S. Lewis have fascinated those who have read his works. This collection of his personal letters reveals...
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Review “L’Amour never writes with less than a saddle creak in his sentences and more often with a desert heatwave boiling up from a sunbaked paragraph. A master storyteller…. for reading under the stars.”—Kirkus Reviews  With more than 120 titles still in print, Louis L’Amour is...
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