In modo intelligentemente eclatante la protagonista da una magnifica bianca con gli occhi chiari diventa una bella pantera color cioccolatino, brown come il titolo del film (nel romanzo il personaggio si chiama invece Jackie Burke). The cinnamon and nutmeg are optional, but once you try them, you won’t make your rum punch without them. Leonard's has crafted a novel with his usual ear for fantastic and witty dialogue and fast, descriptive and fluent prose. Put the rum, sugar syrup, lime juice and cold water into a tall glass with ice and the bitters (or jug, if making multiple drinks) and stir to combine.

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Clean-cut white rum drowns in the welter of sweet and sour, and even the more emphatic demerara-like qualities of golden are wasted; a rum punch demands a blunderbuss in the form of the dark stuff.In the fine tradition of thirst-quenching tropical pours, it also has a hefty acidic element, which is traditionally provided by lime juice. Tarantino ne ha tratto il film Jackie Brown, trasformando il cognome Burke in Brown e la bionda Jackie in una nera procace. A bunch of ever-so-mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods.

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In defense of my undying Tarantino love – casting Pam Grier as “Jackie Brown” rather than some rando white broad as “Jackie Burke” was genius).My favorite Elmore Leonard novels are Tishomingo Blues and Pagan Babies; Rum Punch is my very favorite, thus this review.

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Leonard has always been celebrated for following the writing maxim of “show, don’t tell,”giving you the bare-bones details of what a characterlooked like and wore and where he was at, but lettingthe reader fill in the rest. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. I personaggi sono tratteggiati in modo vivido attraverso dialoghi molto credibili, il romanzo ti fa entrare nel mondo di trafficanti e spacciatori, ti fa capire le loro motivazioni e la loro psicologia senza bisogno di spiegazioni. The story also manages to show human situations, including the feelings of purposelessness expressed by many characters as they age. The relationships of the crooks with each other and of law enforcement with each other also is explored.As with many old recipes, there is no definitive version – the planter’s is a pleasingly laid-back affair that goes by many names, depending on where you are in the Caribbean … but, however horizontal things get, there are a few non-negotiables. Whether from isolation, malice, or simple boredom, people there were far more credulous and excitable than educated people are generally thought to be, and this hermetic, overheated atmosphere made it a thriving black petri dish of melodrama and distortion. Set in the South Florida cities of West Palm Beach and Miami, Rum Punch follows Jackie Burke, a forty-four-year-old stewardess for a bottom-rung airline, who has been smuggling illegal cash into the U. E, spesso lo fanno, lo attraversano: siano essi ufficiali giudiziari, garanti di cauzione come il Max Cherry di questo romanzo, rapinatori di serie B, strozzini.

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Majestyk—there are probably others too, but I can clearly see, just from reading Rum Punch, why so many of Leonard's novels find their way to the big screen. Tra l’altro, i personaggi del libro sembrano preferire la vodka, magari nella variante skrewdriver, più banalmente vodka orange (vodka con succo d’arancia). And with the help of Max Cherry - an honest but disgruntled bail bondsman looking to get out - she could even end up with a serious nest egg in the process. Strain into a smaller cold glass half-full of ice, top with a grating of nutmeg and gaudy garnish to taste. Artist David is "Da-veed" and there is much criticism of him (not too much homophobia on display, but it's there, right beside the mysogyny and xenophobia, but all displayed by the unlikable characters just made that way, like in the story of the spider and the turtle, told here) and his artwork: he does sugarcane fields with people hidden, trying to escape the jungle of 1992!Detroit Free Press Rum Punch is classic Elmore Leonard—the electrifying thriller that served as the basis for the acclaimed film Jackie Brown by director Quentin Tarantino, starring Pam Grier, Robert DeNiro, and Samuel L. A crime novel yes, featuring some bad sons of bitches and things you would expect in a crime novel—guns, drugs, money, back-stabbing, dead bodies; but, through the growing relationship of the lonely Bail bondsman Max, and the ever so likable Jackie Burke, it sure does have a heart too.