The Long Legged Fly by James Sallis

The Long Legged Fly by James Sallis

Part One of the Lew Griffin Series There are those who vanish into the steaming New Orleans night - and it is part time Private Investigator, Repo-man and blues afficionado Lew Griffin's job to find them. A prisoner of the bottle, his past and his skin, Griffin knows every hidden corner of Hell...and is on intimate terms with the demons who dwell there. But the disapperence of a militant woman activist is about to set Griffin on a roller-coaster careening towards rock bottom - carrying the brilliant, tormented black P.I. ever closer to a nightmare that threatens to hit him where he lives..and more brutally than he ever imagined possible.

The Long-Legged Fly is a novel of lost souls, troubled identities, of identities pared down to the boneIt's a secret history of American Identity caught in the web of an era when identity was shifting, scrambled, and ill-defined, almost paranoiac; a time when civil-rights turmoil was surfacing below the threshold of social and political worlds

-- Craig Hickman * Dark Ecologies *

James Sallis has published sixteen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the LA Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. He has received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature policière.

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ISBN 13	9781842436967
ISBN 10	1842436961
Title	The Long Legged Fly
Author	James Sallis
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bedford Square Publishers
Year published	2012-05-25
Number of pages	192
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