Eye of the Cricket by James Sallis
No.4 in the Lew Griffin Series Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which we are heir. 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 displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men. Somewhere in the underbelly of the Crescent City, there are answers and more questions; there are threats and the promise of salvation; and there is a dangerous descent into the alcoholic haze that marked Griffin's younger days as well as the possibility of rising from it, redeemed. Lew Griffin's investigation is the hero's journey, mythic and strengthening and thoroughly satisfying.
Sallis is a fastidious man, intelligent and widely readThere's nothing slapdash or merely strategic about his work ... peculiar and visionary -- Iain Sinclair * London Review of Books *
Classic American crime of the highest order * Time Out *
dazzling, poignant and totally satisfying * Publishers Weekly *
a writer with rich metaphor, wonderful vocabulary and heart -- Andi Shechter * reviewingtheevidence.com *
Classic American crime of the highest order * Time Out *
dazzling, poignant and totally satisfying * Publishers Weekly *
a writer with rich metaphor, wonderful vocabulary and heart -- Andi Shechter * reviewingtheevidence.com *
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 | 9781842437087 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842437089 |
| Title | Eye of the Cricket |
| Author | James Sallis |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bedford Square Publishers |
| Year published | 2012-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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