Out of Sight (novel)
Out of Sight is a 1996[1] crime fiction novel by Elmore Leonard.[2]
Plot
Jack Foley, a "gentleman bank robber" arranges a break-out from a Florida jail. The plan is interrupted by shotgun toting Federal Marshal Karen Sisco. The pair end up in the trunk of the getaway car, where find they have a mutual interest: classic Hollywood movies.[3]
Critical response
In a review of the novel Crime writer Ed McBain points out the irony of Out of Sight being marketed as "by the author of Get Shorty" when that novel was a "payback" for previous poor adaptions of Leonard's other novels as movies.[1]
Movie adaptation
The novel was adapted to a 1998 movie of the same name directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring George Clooney as Foley and Jennifer Lopez as Sisco.[3]
Foley's character returned in Leonard's 2009 novel, Road Dogs.[4]
References
- 1 2 Ed McBain (24 August 1996). "A Love Story (With True Grit): Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard". Los Angeles Times. Tribune Company. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- 1 2 Christopher Orr (22 December 2013). "The Elmore Leonard Paradox". The Atlantic. Atlantic Media. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ↑ Ramona Koval (24 September 2009). "In conversation with Elmore Leonard". The Book Show. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 May 2014.