Out West

by Fred G. Leebron

Book Overview

In this "coolly effective"...noir-flavored novel, two people who meet by chance in San Francisco's Tenderloin get ambushed by their pasts and drawn into "a tense meld of murder and folly" (San... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385484208
• ISBN13: 9780385484206
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

A dark, subtle novel.

.... This novel is on the dark side--think film noir--but it is far from stereotypically so. The characters are compelling and complex, and the narrative, while not fast-paced, moves forward steadily, even inevitably, and certainly held my interest. This novel will be appreciated by anyone with a postmodern bent.

A well-written, imaginative, and original novel.

Here is a young writer with an enviable imagination. The post-mortem character of Dean is a peculiar and wonderful creation, and it's a fun though sometimes exasperating ride finding out what happens to him. I'm eager to see what Leebron comes up with next.

An unrelenting noir tour-de-force

An unflinching, searing examination of a killing - how it's committed and concealed - Out West carves its way to the heart of its characters with urgency and dark wit and in the process restores murder as a literary subject, not just a trigger for detection.