Cuba Libre
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Cuba Libre
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Narrateur(s):
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George Guidall
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Auteur(s):
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Elmore Leonard
À propos de cet audio
“A wild ride through Cuba during the Spanish-American War.”
—Miami Herald
“Not only his finest novel but one that transcends the limits of its genre and is worthy of being evaluated as literary fiction.”
—Houston Chronicle
Before Grand Master Elmore Leonard earned his well-deserved reputation as “the best writer of crime fiction alive” (Newsweek), he penned some of the finest western fiction to ever appear in print. (The classics Hombre, Valdez is Coming, and 3:10 to Yuma were just a few of his notable works.) With his extraordinary Cuba Libre, Leonard ingeniously combines all of his many talents and delivers a historical adventure/caper/western/noir like none other. The creator of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, star of Raylan, Pronto, Riding the Rap, and TV’s Justified, spins a gloriously exciting yarn about an American horse wrangler who escapes a date with a Cuban firing squad to join forces with a powerful sugar baron’s lady looking to make waves and score big in and around Spanish-American War-torn Havana in 1898. Everything you love about Leonard’s fiction—and more—is evident in Cuba Libre. No wonder the New York Times Book Review enthusiastically declared him “a literary genius.”
I really liked the dialogue, dry and pithy, the humour, and the history. Some other reviewers have complained about the extended exposition in places, and, upon reflection, I'll agree that a couple of the characters tend to run their mouths a lot in a way that covers a good deal of the historical background. It didn't bother me much, though, I think because Leonard did go to some trouble to create characters who had a reason to behave that way. Virgil Webster, an enthusiastic young marine, is a total nerd about military equipment and proudly spouts all manner of information about various ships and their armaments in a way that seemed very reminiscent of kids I've known who were Very Into Dinosaurs, or Medieval Weaponry, or whatever. The other character who gives us a whack of historical knowledge is the American journalist Neely Tucker, who rants at some length about the mishandling of the war by incompetent leaders, and the misrepresentation of events by the newspapers back home. He's frustrated at not being able to sell his view of things and unloads on another character, who is clearly not in the least interested. Pretty funny, really, although, yes, perhaps a bit too long. I wanted to get on with the story, but I did think I'd like to go back and go over that part again, for the historical information. Unfortunately, that's harder to do with an audiobook than a paper one. You can make a bookmark for returning to a particular spot, but I never think of it until later....sigh.
As an audiobook, this is very successful; the reader, George Guidall, has the perfect delivery for Leonard's prose: understated, slightly amused, dry, and each character's voice very distinct, with appropriate accents. Splendid.
Well, I liked it.
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