Get Shorty
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters | 2012 | Winner |
About This Book
Miami loan shark Chili Palmer travels to Hollywood to collect a debt and becomes convinced he could produce movies better than the hapless producers he meets. A darkly comic caper novel that skewers Hollywood and the criminal world simultaneously. Adapted into the beloved 1995 film starring John Travolta.
About the Author
Elmore Leonard (1925–2013) was an American crime novelist and screenwriter whose taut, dialogue-driven crime fiction earned him the nickname 'the Dickens of Detroit' and the admiration of virtually every major crime writer in America. Born in New Orleans and raised in Detroit, Leonard began his career writing Western short stories and novels in the 1950s before shifting to crime fiction in the 1960s and 1970s and achieving mainstream bestseller status with books like Get Shorty (1990), Out of Sight (1996), and Rum Punch (1992). Leonard's fiction is celebrated above all for its dialogue—crackling, idiomatic, and perfectly characterised—and for its intricate plots driven by characters from the criminal underworld and the margins of American life. Read more →
