Out of Sight (novel)

First edition (publ. Delacorte Press)

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. 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.
  2. ↑ "Elmore Leonard, author of Get Shorty and Out of Sight, dies". The Guardian (Guardian Media Group). 21 August 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  3. 1 2 Christopher Orr (22 December 2013). "The Elmore Leonard Paradox". The Atlantic (Atlantic Media). Retrieved 1 January 2014.
  4. ↑ Ramona Koval (24 September 2009). "In conversation with Elmore Leonard". The Book Show. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
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