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Last Stand at Saber River took almost forty years to be filmed, as a TV movie starring Tom Selleck, Suzy Amis, Haley Joel Osment, Keith Carradine, David Carradine and David Dukes. The film and the book differ mainly in the beginning and end sequences. The film starts earlier than the book, filling in background that is flashbacked in the book.
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Aug 13, 2013 · Last Stand at Saber River. Paperback – August 13, 2013. by Elmore Leonard (Author) 4.2 736 ratings. See all formats and editions. A quiet haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy.
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Dec 3, 2002 · Last Stand at Saber River. Mass Market Paperback – December 3, 2002. A quiet, haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy. Two brothers—Union men—have claimed his spread and they're not about to give it ...
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Oct 13, 2009 · From New York Times Bestselling Author Elmore Leonard come two of his early, beloved westerns–now collected in one volume. LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER. A quiet, haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off, but things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to fight for the Confederacy.
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Perhaps it’s the power of these scenes that’s responsible, but the rest of Last Stand at Saber Riverseems almost unfocused, stumbling along with probably more highlighted characters than needed and an excess of backstory, particularly an excess of flashbacks. It is as if Leonard who’d made a middling career as a short story writer over the earlier ...
Much of the rest of his novel may seem a bit fuzzy because of two characters who, each individually, set out to make things fuzzy. The one is Lorraine Kidston, the niece of Vern, a spoiled, motherless girl of 18, enamored of her own attractions and hot for the well-married Cable. Her shenanigans, though, turn out to be little more than stupid, mino...
Not so with the other character, Edward Janroe, a bitter, one-armed survivor of the war who is now running rifles for the rebels and is, almost assuredly, certifiably insane. Insane in a kind of subtly symptomatic way. Insane in way that, in the war, led him to order the murders of a hundred Union captives. Insane in a way that leads him to poison ...
The reader knows the wrinkles and fissures of Janroe’s madness because Leonard tells, at several points, what this character is thinking and why he takes the actions he’s taking. The other characters don’t know. All they comprehend is that they are moving through a fog of events that aren’t particularly clear but seem to show dread dangers. As with...
Last Stand at Saber River. Paperback – Aug. 13 2013. A quiet haunted man, Paul Cable walked away from a lost cause hoping to pick up where he left off. But things have changed in Arizona since he first rode out to go fight for the Confederacy. Two brothers—Union men—have claimed his spread and they're not about to give it back, leaving ...
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Feb 16, 2012 · Last Stand at Saber River. Elmore Leonard. Orion, Feb 16, 2012 - Fiction - 256 pages. A nail-biting, tough-talking classic western from the author of GET SHORTY and JACKIE BROWN. In LAST STAND AT SABER RIVER, a Civil War veteran returns home to find a Yankee's private army living on his land, while another enemy waits to strike...
