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Elmore Leonard. 3.82. 1,259 ratings110 reviews. 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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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...
Confederate Soldier Paul Cable leaves the Civil War and returns home with his wife and family to Saber River. However since he’s been away the Kidston brothers Vern and Duane, along with their henchmen, have taken over his home and land.
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Jul 10, 2020 · Over 60 years later, the book is still in print as a paperback, ebook and audiobook. Our hero is Paul Cable who fought for the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War for over two years and is returning home to his ranch on Arizona’s Saber River to be with his family.
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.
- Elmore Leonard
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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.
- Elmore Leonard
