James Sallis
Autor/a de Drive
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
The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall 1996): Edmund White / Samuel R. Delany (1996) — Editor — 35 exemplars
Long-Legged Fly and Moth 7 exemplars
Dear Floods Of Her Hair 3 exemplars
Drive 3 exemplars
As Yet Untitled 3 exemplars
The Anxiety in the Eyes of the Cricket 2 exemplars
At The Fitting Shop 2 exemplars
Faces & Hands 1 exemplars
Difficult Lives Hitching Rides 1 exemplars
Day's Heat (short story) 1 exemplars
Cyprus Grove 1 exemplars
The Orc King 1 exemplars
When We Saved The World 1 exemplars
Insect Men Of Boston (New Worlds 7) 1 exemplars
The Genre Kid 1 exemplars
When Fire Knew My Name 1 exemplars
How the Damned Live On 1 exemplars
My Tongue in Other Cheeks 1 exemplars
The Creation Of Bennie Good 1 exemplars
53rd American Dream (short story) 1 exemplars
American Dream 1 exemplars
Tissue [short story] 1 exemplars
Miranda-Escobedo 1 exemplars
Doucement, s'il vous plait {short story} 1 exemplars
Telling Lives / The Museum of Last Week 1 exemplars
La nécessité et Martin Heideger 1 exemplars
Tissue (two stories) 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Col·laborador — 329 exemplars
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Col·laborador — 183 exemplars
The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers, and Dark Roads (2016) — Col·laborador — 52 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 2008, Vol. 115, No. 6 (1973) — Book reviewer — 23 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May/June 2012, Vol. 122, Nos. 5 & 6 (2012) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 1 [January 1985] (1985) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2008, Vol. 114, No. 4 (2008) — Book reviewer — 12 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2019, Vol. 137, Nos. 3 & 4 (1991) — Book reviewer — 12 exemplars
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 43, No. 9 & 10 [September/October 2019] (2019) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Worlds of If Science Fiction 144, January 1970 (Vol. 20, No. 1) (1970) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Borderland Noir: Stories & Essays of Love & Death across the Rio Grande (2015) — 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
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Altres noms
- Sallis, James R.
- Data de naixement
- 1944-12-21
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Helena, Arkansas, USA
- Llocs de residència
- Helena, Arkansas, USA (birth)
Phoenix, Arizona, USA - Professions
- musician
respiratory therapist
novelist - Relacions
- Sallis, John (brother)
- Premis i honors
- Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
Membres
Ressenyes
Cypress Grove (John Turner Series) de James Sallis
I was intrigued by Sallis when I found out he had written Drive. I decided to read this one rather than Drive because I had so recently seen the movie. The book is full of pain but very well written. It grabs you and pulls you through Turner's world. Don't read it if you are melancholy.
Not a fan of this one. I'm all for minimalist prose but when there are departures from that minimalism you always question why - and it felt reading this that the author was more interested in suggesting their political views and describing food and drink than with anything else. For a character living on the breadline, the protagonist here does an awful lot of eating out...
A dark, compelling noir novella (158 pages) that vividly portrays a gritty underworld of crime and criminals, but shortchanges the reader on plot. The prose comes across like an Impressionistic painting, holding back on detail in ways that make your brain fill in what is missing. This works for characters and setting, but not so much on plot, which is a muddle.
We never learn the name of Driver, but we learn more about him in the book than in the film that was based on it. Here, he has a former life and a former family. We learn why he has the survival skills that he does. We still don't learn about his motivations and dreams, other than the need to survive. But the screenplay has the benefit of creating a richer now that includes a compelling through line of plot, cause and effect, in contrast to the book, which consists only of moments.
Like a pointillist painting, those moments eventually add up to a fuller, if still incomplete picture. And like the film, the book is a work of art.… (més)
We never learn the name of Driver, but we learn more about him in the book than in the film that was based on it. Here, he has a former life and a former family. We learn why he has the survival skills that he does. We still don't learn about his motivations and dreams, other than the need to survive. But the screenplay has the benefit of creating a richer now that includes a compelling through line of plot, cause and effect, in contrast to the book, which consists only of moments.
Like a pointillist painting, those moments eventually add up to a fuller, if still incomplete picture. And like the film, the book is a work of art.… (més)
Sometimes a shorter book works and sometimes it leaves you with more questions than answers. Interesting concept and maybe I will try to movie to fill in the gaps.
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 69
- També de
- 59
- Membres
- 2,916
- Popularitat
- #8,781
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 135
- ISBN
- 370
- Llengües
- 7
- Preferit
- 17
- Pedres de toc
- 80
