James Sallis
Författare till Drive
Om författaren
James Sallis is a poet, music critic, biographer, and author. A lifelong student of the work of Chester Himes, he lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
Serier
Verk av James Sallis
The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Fall 1996): Edmund White / Samuel R. Delany (1996) — Redaktör — 35 exemplar
Long-Legged Fly and Moth 7 exemplar
Dear Floods Of Her Hair 3 exemplar
Drive 3 exemplar
As Yet Untitled 3 exemplar
The Anxiety in the Eyes of the Cricket 2 exemplar
At The Fitting Shop 2 exemplar
Faces & Hands 1 exemplar
Difficult Lives Hitching Rides 1 exemplar
Day's Heat (short story) 1 exemplar
Cyprus Grove 1 exemplar
The Orc King 1 exemplar
When We Saved The World 1 exemplar
Insect Men Of Boston (New Worlds 7) 1 exemplar
The Genre Kid 1 exemplar
When Fire Knew My Name 1 exemplar
How the Damned Live On 1 exemplar
My Tongue in Other Cheeks 1 exemplar
The Creation Of Bennie Good 1 exemplar
53rd American Dream (short story) 1 exemplar
American Dream 1 exemplar
Tissue [short story] 1 exemplar
Miranda-Escobedo 1 exemplar
Doucement, s'il vous plait {short story} 1 exemplar
Telling Lives / The Museum of Last Week 1 exemplar
La nécessité et Martin Heideger 1 exemplar
Tissue (two stories) 1 exemplar
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Thirteenth Annual Collection (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 329 exemplar
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 183 exemplar
The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers, and Dark Roads (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 52 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 2008, Vol. 115, No. 6 (1973) — Book reviewer — 23 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May/June 2012, Vol. 122, Nos. 5 & 6 (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 9, No. 1 [January 1985] (1985) — Bidragsgivare — 13 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 2008, Vol. 114, No. 4 (2008) — Book reviewer — 12 exemplar
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September/October 2019, Vol. 137, Nos. 3 & 4 (1991) — Book reviewer — 12 exemplar
Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 43, No. 9 & 10 [September/October 2019] (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 6 exemplar
Borderland Noir: Stories & Essays of Love & Death across the Rio Grande (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 7 — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 8 — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Andra namn
- Sallis, James R.
- Födelsedag
- 1944-12-21
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Helena, Arkansas, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Helena, Arkansas, USA (birth)
Phoenix, Arizona, USA - Yrken
- musician
respiratory therapist
novelist - Relationer
- Sallis, John (brother)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Bouchercon Lifetime Achievement Award (2007)
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Recensioner
Cypress Grove (John Turner Series) av 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.… (mer)
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.… (mer)
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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Statistik
- Verk
- 69
- Även av
- 60
- Medlemmar
- 2,916
- Popularitet
- #8,781
- Betyg
- 3.7
- Recensioner
- 135
- ISBN
- 370
- Språk
- 7
- Favoritmärkt
- 17
- Proberstenar
- 80
