Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade
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Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade
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Narrated by:
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JD Jackson
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By:
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Joe R. Lansdale
The iconic Texan crime-fighting, bigot-bashing duo meet in this companion to the breakout Hap and Leonard TV series
As a liberal young man in East Texas, Hap Collins is discovering his passion for two-fisted justice in a redneck world. Leonard Pine—black, gay, and the ultimate outsider—is already fighting his own battles against racists and bullies. So when Hap sees Leonard demolishing an angry mob with his fists (and taunts), it’s immediately clear that these two young men have a lot in common.
Discover Joe R. Lansdale's compelling coming-of-age manifesto alongside the second season of the Sundance TV Hap and Leonard series starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire), and James Purefoy (The Following).
© 2017 by Joe R. Lansdale. ℗ 2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
Critic reviews
“Showcases some of Lansdale’s most personal and reflective writing to date.”—Publishers Weekly, (starred review)
“Everything here is written in Lansdale's inimitable style of down-home East Texas storytelling, and everything is eminently readable and enjoyable. There's humor, there's sadness, there's blood, and there's lemonade. And some cussing, too. Great stuff, irresistible reading.”—Bill Crider, Pop Culture Magazine
“The reason Lansdale can get away with outrageous literary behavior the way he does is because at the center of his every story lie the beating hearts of characters who are as true and honest a reflection of a real person as Lansdale can make them . . . Highly recommended.” —Fantasy & Science Fiction
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This is, as Lansdale himself calls it in the afterword, a mosaic novel - a collection of stories which fill in a lot of the history of Hap and Leonard as well as reflecting the times they lived in. Lansdale is known as the Bard of Texas and I’m sure his work will always be valued as a window into a southern community through shifting times.
Lansdale’s work is always gritty, thought-provoking and funny. There are genuine laugh-out-loud moments and his unexpected turns of phrase are a joy. An example, not from this book, “He hit me so hard some of the coins in my pocket changed denomination.” Genius.
Hap and Leonard origin stories
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Hap and Leonard - always hugely entertaining
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