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James Sallis

Autor/a de Drive

69+ obres 2,955 Membres 140 Ressenyes 17 preferits

Sobre l'autor

James Sallis is a poet, music critic, biographer, and author. A lifelong student of the work of Chester Himes, he lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Obres de James Sallis

Drive (2005) 602 exemplars
The Long-Legged Fly (1992) 236 exemplars
Cypress Grove (2003) 212 exemplars
Driven (2012) 154 exemplars
Cripple Creek (2005) 143 exemplars
Moth (1993) 140 exemplars
Black Hornet (1994) 139 exemplars
The Killer Is Dying (2011) 134 exemplars
Salt River (2007) 120 exemplars
Bluebottle (1999) 104 exemplars
Eye of the Cricket (1997) 102 exemplars
Sarah Jane (2019) 99 exemplars
Chester Himes: A Life (2000) 85 exemplars
Death Will Have Your Eyes (1997) 81 exemplars
Ghost of a Flea (2001) 80 exemplars
Willnot (2016) 75 exemplars
Others of My Kind (2013) 55 exemplars
The Shores Beneath (1971) — Editor — 27 exemplars
The War Book (1969) 27 exemplars
Time's Hammers (2000) 21 exemplars
The Guitar Players (1982) 19 exemplars
Potato Tree (2006) 16 exemplars
A City Equal to My Desire (2004) 13 exemplars
Renderings: A Novel (1995) 9 exemplars
Limits of the Sensible World (1995) 6 exemplars
Jazz guitars: An anthology (1984) 5 exemplars
A few last words (1968) 5 exemplars
Drive 3 exemplars
La agonía del asesino (2014) 3 exemplars
As Yet Untitled 3 exemplars
Difficult Lives Hitching Rides (2021) 2 exemplars
At The Fitting Shop 2 exemplars
Jim And Mary G (1970) 2 exemplars
Faces & Hands 1 exemplars
Cyprus Grove 1 exemplars
The Orc King 1 exemplars
The Genre Kid 1 exemplars
Night's Pardons (2016) 1 exemplars
Binaries [short story] (1971) 1 exemplars
American Dream 1 exemplars
Miranda-Escobedo 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Pegasus Descending (2006) — Introducció, algunes edicions1,226 exemplars
Again, Dangerous Visions (1972) — Col·laborador — 983 exemplars
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Col·laborador — 332 exemplars
The Mad and the Bad (1972) — Introducció, algunes edicions264 exemplars
100 Great Fantasy Short, Short Stories (1984) — Col·laborador — 246 exemplars
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (2007) — Col·laborador — 223 exemplars
Nova 1 (1970) — Col·laborador — 137 exemplars
Phoenix Noir (2009) — Col·laborador — 136 exemplars
The New Nature of the Catastrophe (1993) — Col·laborador — 123 exemplars
Full Spectrum 2 (1990) — Col·laborador — 117 exemplars
Dark Delicacies II: Fear (2007) — Col·laborador — 111 exemplars
Orbit 5 (1969) — Col·laborador — 100 exemplars
Orbit 11 (1972) — Col·laborador — 95 exemplars
Whispers: An Anthology of Fantasy and Horror (1977) — Col·laborador — 95 exemplars
Orbit 7 (1970) — Col·laborador — 82 exemplars
Orbit 4 (1968) — Col·laborador — 77 exemplars
OxCrimes (2014) — Col·laborador — 75 exemplars
Orbit 3 (1968) — Col·laborador — 72 exemplars
Leviathan Three (2002) — Col·laborador — 68 exemplars
Best From Orbit Volumes 1-10 (1975) — Col·laborador — 67 exemplars
The New SF (1969) — Col·laborador — 63 exemplars
Orbit 13 (1974) — Col·laborador — 58 exemplars
Clarion II (1972) — Introducció — 57 exemplars
Orbit 6 (1970) — Col·laborador — 56 exemplars
Best SF Stories from New Worlds 3 (1968) — Col·laborador — 56 exemplars
Crossroads: Tales of the Southern Literary Fantastic (2004) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
Quark/3 (1971) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
Quark/2 (1971) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
A Pocketful Of Stars (1971) — Col·laborador — 49 exemplars
Orbit 9 (1971) — Col·laborador — 47 exemplars
New Worlds 7 (1974) — Col·laborador — 38 exemplars
Album Zutique: No. 1 (2003) — Col·laborador — 37 exemplars
Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead (2017) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
Alternities (1974) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions32 exemplars
Breaking Windows: A Fantastic Metropolis Sampler (2003) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
Berserkers (1973) — Col·laborador — 27 exemplars
2076: The American Tricentennial (1977) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2019 Edition (2019) — Col·laborador — 25 exemplars
Univers 1980 (1980) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 40, No. 12 [December 2016] (2016) — Col·laborador — 17 exemplars
On Dangerous Ground: Stories of Western Noir (2011) — Introducció — 16 exemplars
Black is the Night: Stories inspired by Cornell Woolrich (2022) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
The Nature of the Catastrophe (1971) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
The Best of Talebones (2010) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 14 (2004) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Worlds of If Science Fiction 144, January 1970 (Vol. 20, No. 1) (1970) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Ink and Daggers (2023) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 37 (2018) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 43, No. 5 & 6 [May/June 2019] (2019) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 7 — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 8 — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Amazing Stories Vol. 72, No. 2 [Summer 2000] (2000) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars

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stylistically, loved this book. Nice noir feel throughout. About a black P.I in New Orleans, with stories taking place in the 60's, 70's 80's and 890's. Or is it about New Orleans itself, or race, or the U.S. or the author. If you don't mind a bit of philosophy and have you tube to check out all the blues and jazz mentioned. well worth the read
 
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cspiwak | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Mar 6, 2024 |
Short but action packed novel. Driver is a career criminal, one that has a lethal combination of youth and wide variety of skills. He picked up a lot as a youth, everything from fast driving, martial arts, knife fighting and guns. He is cold blooded, analytical unlike other crime novel character - Parker.

But unlike Parker, Driver is person that appreciates the company - unfortunately whoever is associated with him dies rather suddenly and violently.

Very good novel, short and right on the spot. For all fans of Stark's Parker this is highly recommended.… (més)
 
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Zare | Hi ha 26 ressenyes més | Jan 23, 2024 |
One more excellent thriller featuring Driver. He is now being hunted after years of living under false name and finally finding what might be called normal life. He is trying to find his pursuers and make an end to it but not everything is like it seems.

For Parker fans and fans of the original novel "Drive" highly recommended.
 
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Zare | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Jan 23, 2024 |
Review of first two books in the series, The long-legged Fly and Moth:

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"Other people's roaches, other place's roaches, run for cover when you turn the lights on. You ever seen any different? But not here, man. New Orleans roaches are more liable to drop to one knee and give out with a chorus of 'Swanee.'"

These are the first two books in a new-to-me detective series set in New Orleans. Although the books are very noirish, the author is also a poet, and the writing is sometimes lyrical, and there are many literary references. The prose in these books is a delight to read.

In the first book, Lew Griffin, the detective, works on a series of cases separated by a number of years, beginning in 1964. (This was 4 years before I went to live in New Orleans). There's tons of New Orleans references and atmosphere, which I really liked. There's a number of recurring characters, including NOPD officer Don Walsh, and prostitute with a heart of gold La Verne.

In the first section, 1964, Lew is asked to find a missing civil rights leader. In 1970 he's hired by a couple from rural Mississippi to find their teenage daughter. In 1984, he's just out of detox and is in a serious relationship with Vicky a Scottish nurse. He is making a living doing collection work when his former roommate from a half-way house asks him to find his missing sister. And when we catch up with Lew again in 1990, we find he has written a novel about a cajun detective in New Orleans, when his ex-wife Jane asks him to help find their son David who has gone missing. The interesting thing about Lew's cases is that they are not always solved, or at least not solved in a way that the bad guys receive their due and the missing person is returned. The book ends, "It's not midnight. It's not raining."

And the first line of the second book is, "It was midnight, it was raining." This is a more conventional detective story, with a sustained rather than episodic plot, though it also begins as a missing persons case. Lew's friend LaVerne has died of cancer, and he learns that for some time before her death she had been searching for the daughter she was estranged from. Her husband asks Lew to help find the daughter, and he follows her trail to rural Mississippi, where she has given birth to a crack-addicted premature baby.

I'll be continuing to read this series. There are several more.

3 1/2 stars
… (més)
½
 
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arubabookwoman | Hi ha 11 ressenyes més | Dec 31, 2023 |

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Obres
69
També de
61
Membres
2,955
Popularitat
#8,638
Valoració
½ 3.7
Ressenyes
140
ISBN
372
Llengües
8
Preferit
17

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