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Author : James Sallis
Publisher : No Exit Press
ISBN 13 : 9780857302564
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides written by James Sallis and published by No Exit Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Bedford Square Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0857302574
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (573 download)
Download or read book Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides written by James Sallis and published by Bedford Square Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when daylight was showing around the seams of American society and visions quite in contrast to the sanctioned version drifted to the surface in books one bought off racks in drugstores and bus stations -- stark, bonelike, disturbing books. We're pleased to make Difficult Lives available again, doubling your pleasure by pairing it with Hitching Rides, an equal volume of new essays on other crime writers including Derek Raymond, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patricia Highsmith and Shirley Jackson.
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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476651612
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book written by and published by McFarland. This book was released on with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641291443
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book The Long-Legged Fly written by James Sallis and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As much a classic detective story as it is a literary masterpiece, The Long-Legged Fly introduces us to Lew Griffin: tough, smart, and living in a corner of society where life is fought for as much as it is lived. In steamy New Orleans, black private detective Lew Griffin has taken on a seemingly hopeless missing-person case. The trail takes him through the underbelly of the French Quarter with its bar girls, pimps, and tourist attractions. As his search leads to one violent dead end and then another, Griffin is confronted by the realization that his own life has come to resemble those of the people he is attempting to find.
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641291524
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Bluebottle written by James Sallis and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving Griffin's search for identity-one of the recurring themes in this magnificent series of novels-with a sensuous portrait of the people and places the define New Orleans, James Sallis continues not only to unravel Griffin's past but to map his future . . . and our own. As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he has just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes to, he discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the shooter? Somewhere in the Crescent City—and in the white supremacist movement crawling through it—there's an answer. But to get to it, he is going to have to work with the only people offering help, people he knows he should avoid.
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Soho Crime
ISBN 13 : 1641290803
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Sarah Jane written by James Sallis and published by Soho Crime. This book was released on 2019 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by Sallis, master of both noir and the tender aspects of human nature and theauthor of Drive..
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641291486
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Black Hornet written by James Sallis and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this flashback novel to Lew Griffin’s past, James Sallis takes readers to 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists. A sniper has fatally shot five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin is standing beside her. Though they are virtual strangers, it is left to Griffin to avenge her death, or at least to try and make some sense of it. His unlikely allies include a crusading journalist, a longtime supplier of mercenary arms and troops, and a bail bondsman.
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641291540
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Ghost of a Flea written by James Sallis and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mystery of private investigator Lew Griffin is revealed in the conclusion of this critically acclaimed, groundbreaking series. In his old house in uptown New Orleans, Lew Griffin stands alone in a dark room, looking out. Behind him on the bed is a body. Instead of speaking, he reflects on his life—his failing relationship, his missing son, the fact that he hasn’t written in years—and how the two of them ended up there. In a novel as much about identity as about crime, the answers to Lew’s personal mysteries begin to become clear in the series’ brilliantly constructed climax.
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641291508
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Eye of the Cricket written by James Sallis and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding people is what former private investigator Lew Griffin excels at. The terrible irony is that the exception is his own missing son. Dreams, memories, and reality run together to form his own darkest night. Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans—a teacher, a writer, and an ex-detective. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son—and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and toting a copy of one of Lew’s novels. Learning the truth is a quest that will take Griffin into his own past as he tries to deal with the present: a search for three missing young men.
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 164129146X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)
Download or read book Moth written by James Sallis and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lew Griffin, now fifty years old, has abandoned his former career as a New Orleans private investigator for the safety of teaching. But his old life draws him back. One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin’s dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, LaVerne Adams, is dead—and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers, leaving behind a critically fragile premature infant daughter. Griffin is determined to keep his distance from the dangers of the New Orleans night. But his inescapable obligation to an old friend keeps bringing him back like a moth to a flame.
Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1681990458
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Difficult Lives Hitching Rides written by James Sallis and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Sallis's (Drive) seminal biographical essays on crime fiction pioneers Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes restored to print and joined by a handpicked collection of essays, reviews, and introductory writings on noir fiction. At the time of its original publication by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was a pioneering work of literary investigation. Sallis's subjects of Himes, Goodis, and Thompson were as enigmatic as they were out-of-print, and literary scholarship on the subject of their lives and works scant. As the title of the collection indicates, the three men led difficult lives, and although they forever changed the history of crime writing, they all passed in relative isolation. The literary detective work Sallis did then has been built upon since but rarely with the same poetry and authorial sympathy. Despite there now existing several works of academic and popular biography on each writer Sallis's novella-length biographies retain the sense of the newly uncovered. Those three pieces, "Jim Thompson: Dime-store Dosteoevski," "David Goodis: Life in Black and White," and "Chester Himes: America's Black Heartland" are prefigured by a new introduction by the author as well as the original introduction, "Portable Worlds: The First Paperback Novel." Following Difficult Lives is collection of reviews, essays and introductions, selected by Sallis, covering a wide range of crime fiction's most legendary authors and books: Derek Raymond, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Boris Vian, Patricia Highsmith, James Lee Burke, George Pelecanos, Paco Taibo, Shirley Jackson, and more.
Author : Dennis Abrams
Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 143814752X
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Gary Soto written by Dennis Abrams and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Mexican American author, Gary Soto, who writes children's books.
Author : Isabel Cuerrier
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1418401684
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Beyond Life's Storms written by Isabel Cuerrier and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of a mother's loss (the death of her daughter, Starr), and subsequent healing journey.
Author : Bobby Dutton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1450031595
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Bobby's Life Journey written by Bobby Dutton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bobby’s Life Journey is a true story about a young boy who faced a world of poverty and illness. Forced by circumstances, he took on challenges reserved for adults, provided for his mother and stepfather, then raised his own family, and over a forty-year period, established 22 different successful companies. This is not a rags-to-riches story but proves that the world is filled with opportunity for anyone with the courage to walk into the world of unknowns with confidence—that through hard work and a diligent pursuit, all roadblocks can be conquered.
Author : Will Ferguson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369072
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Hitching Rides with Buddha written by Will Ferguson and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published as Hokkaido Highway Blues, with limited distribution in Canada, Will Ferguson’s classic book about Japan, for all fans of the bestselling Beauty Tips from Moose Jaw. With the same fervour they have for outlandish game shows and tiny gadgets, the Japanese go nuts each spring when the cherry blossoms sweep from island to island towards the country’s northerly tip. Will Ferguson was celebrating the event in the standard fashion. And after way too much sake he announced he would be the first person in recorded history to follow the blossom’s progress end to end. To make it a challenge worth doing, he’d hitchhike all the way: relying on the kindness of some very weird and wonderful strangers. Mixing his penchant for biting observation with wicked humour, Ferguson starts at the southernmost tip of Cape Sata and heads north for distant Hokkaido. Whether he is doing the forbidden and not knowing it, or holding "conversations by non sequitur," it is a journey full of misadventures and revelations. The resulting travelogue is one of the funniest and most illuminating books ever written about Japan. To make matters worse, I decided to hitchhike. Striking a heroic stance, I declared my intention to my Japanese friends to become the first person ever to hitchhike the length of Japan, end-to-end, cape-to-cape, sea-to-sea. This did not impress them as much as I had hoped. “Why would you want to do that?” they asked, genuinely puzzled. “There is no reason to hitchhike. That’s why we built the Bullet Train.” Others worried about my safety. “But,” I would argue, “Japan is a very safe country, is it not?” “Oh, yes. Very safe. Safest in the world.” “So why shouldn’t I hitchhike?” “Because Japan is dangerous.” And so on. Now, I will admit that mooching rides across Japan is not a major achievement—I mean, it’s not like I paddled up the Amazon or discovered insulin or anything—but I am the first person ever to do this, so allow me my hubris. When I left my home in Minamata City aboard a southbound train, I felt suitably bold with my backpack and muscular thumb. “I’m going to hitchhike the length of Japan,” I told the man beside me. He smiled and nodded. “I’m going to follow the cherry blossoms.” He nodded. “All the way to Russia,” I said. He smiled again, and soon after changed seats. —from Hitching Rides with Buddha
Author : Jim Reed
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426963602
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Turning Final, a Life Complete written by Jim Reed and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Reed has had a life of diverse adventure. From sending U-2s to the North Pole, retrieving Missiles in the open ocean and a flying career that spanned the world, he has done just about everything that you could pack into one lifetime. Turning Final captures those adventures and shares it with all of us who dream of meeting exciting challenges. This story is about a real life pilot/sailor who accomplished things that most people only dream about while at the same time he and his lovely wife raised a family of four boys. His life truly spans the world.
Author : P. J. Gullan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444317671
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book The Insects written by P. J. Gullan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This established, popular textbook provides a stimulating andcomprehensive introduction to the insects, the animals thatrepresent over half of the planet's biological diversity. In thisnew fourth edition, the authors introduce the key features ofinsect structure, function, behavior, ecology and classification,placed within the latest ideas on insect evolution. Much of thebook is organised around major biological themes - living on theground, in water, on plants, in colonies, and as predators,parasites/parasitoids and prey. A strong evolutionary theme ismaintained throughout. The ever-growing economic importance ofinsects is emphasized in new boxes on insect pests, and in chapterson medical and veterinary entomology, and pest management. Updated'taxoboxes' provide concise information on all aspects of each ofthe 27 major groupings (orders) of insects. Key Features: All chapters thoroughly updated with the latest results frominternational studies Accompanying website with downloadable illustrations and linksto video clips All chapters to include new text boxes of topical issues andstudies Major revision of systematic and taxonomy chapter Still beautifully illustrated with more new illustrations fromthe artist, Karina McInnes A companion resources site is available at ahref="http://www.wiley.com/go/gullan/insects"target="_blank"www.wiley.com/go/gullan/insects/a. This siteincludes: Copies of the figures from the book for downloading, along witha PDF of the captions. Colour versions of key figures from the book A list of useful web links for each chapter, selected by theauthor.
