Volume 34, Number 13 · August 13, 1987
Indictments
By Thomas R. Edwards
Bandits
by Elmore Leonard
Arbor House, 345 pp., $17.95
The Red White and Blue
by John Gregory Dunne
Simon and Schuster, 475 pp., $18.95
Even those who don't care for crime fiction may like what Elmore Leonard makes of it, especially his way of representing common or low American voices. Consider this splendid speech in Bandits, by an old but still lively Louisiana bank robber banished by his relatives to a shabby nursing home:
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