{"id":417,"date":"2021-08-27T10:33:04","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T01:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/?p=417"},"modified":"2022-07-08T11:52:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T02:52:20","slug":"el%e6%9c%ac%e6%a3%9a%e7%b4%b9%e4%bb%8b3-coward-a-criminal-edition-by-ed-brubaker-and-sean-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/417\/","title":{"rendered":"EL\u672c\u68da\u7d39\u4ecb(3) Coward: A CRIMINAL Edition, by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<180 words) introductions\/reviews of books in the EL library. They focus on telling you what we think will be interesting for you, a college student and English learner, so use them to help you find the right book for you. You can also use the <\/em>tags<em> to find books about topics you might be interested in.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>_______<\/p>\n<p>Do you like crime drama movies, like <em>Heat<\/em>, <em>The Godfather<\/em>, or <em>Goodfellas<\/em>? Or heist movies like <em>Oceans 11<\/em> or, well, <em>Heist<\/em>? Then you might like <em>Coward<\/em>, the story of Leo, a criminal involved in a plan to steal a big truckload of diamonds. But when they put their complicated plan into action, things go wrong: guns fire, people get hurt, and Leo escapes \u2013 not with a briefcase full of diamonds, but one stuffed with cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Although the first half of the story is about \u201cbad people\u201d committing crimes, the heart of the story is in the second half, when Leo is hiding on a farm with Greta, who was badly hurt in the robbery, and his elderly father, a compulsive thief suffering from dementia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My two cents:<\/strong> The plot is about crime, but the story of the relationship between Leo, his father, and Greta is at times heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1564\" src=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/criminalcoward-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/criminalcoward-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/68\/criminalcoward.png 416w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Welcome to the EL Book Introductions series. These posts are all short (<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17,19,9,18],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-book-introductions","tag-blood-violence","tag-drugs","tag-comic-book","tag-crime","item-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.hirosaki-u.ac.jp\/salc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}