Ebook {Epub PDF} Willnot by James Sallis

 · "First up is the sublime James Sallis with Willnot (Bloomsbury). Sallis is a crime writer’s crime writer, a superbly skillful novelist and short story writer, as well as a poet, essayist and biographer. He writes detective series and standalone books, and Willnot is one of the bltadwin.ru: Bloomsbury USA. James Sallis is one of our greatest living crime writers, and Willnot continues an almost unseemly streak of excellence. Try to get his words, his stories, his people out of your head. Just try. Laura Lippman. Willnot is a slippery, poetic mystery that becomes a love story to small town America. Ian bltadwin.ru: In his acclaimed career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them memorable observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the existential black New Orleans private investigator; retired detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive. Dr. Lamar Hale will now join the ranks of Sallis's finest bltadwin.ru the woods outside the town Extent:

From veteran Sallis (Others of My Kind, , etc.) comes this short, charming novel that's part noir mystery and part small-town slice of bltadwin.ru story starts fast and portentously (its first four words are "We found the bodies "), and the book has the form of a suspense novel: there's a bewildering mass grave that must be excavated; a suddenly returned native, Bobby Lowndes, a boyhood. Dr. Lamar Hale will now join the ranks of Sallis's finest characters. In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have suddenly been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Hale, the town's all-purpose general practitioner, surgeon, and town conscience. In his acclaimed career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them memorable observers of the human cond.

James Sallis is the acclaimed author of more than two dozen volumes of fiction, poetry, translation, essays, and criticism, including the Lew Griffin series, Drive (made into the movie of the same name), Cypress Grove, Cripple Creek, and Salt River. His biography of the great crime writer Chester Himes is an acknowledged classic. James Sallis’s new book “Willnot” starts with a great bang, a bewildering mass grave is found near town that must be excavated. It’s impossible to tell just how many bodies have been found, who they were, and how they got there. In his acclaimed career, James Sallis has created some of the most finely drawn protagonists in crime fiction, all of them memorable observers of the human condition: Lew Griffin, the existential black New Orleans private investigator; retired detective John Turner; the unnamed wheelman in Drive. Dr. Lamar Hale will now join the ranks of Sallis's finest bltadwin.ru the woods outside the town.