James Sallis Ordre des livres (chronologique)

The collection showcases the complete short fiction of James Sallis, featuring 154 stories, including 12 exclusive to this volume. Spanning six decades, it highlights Sallis's versatility across genres such as crime, noir, and speculative fiction. Revered for his innovative style and literary prowess, he is compared to contemporaries like Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon. His work is celebrated for its poetic depth, philosophical insights, and emotional resonance, making this volume a significant addition for fans and writers alike.

The collection features a series of captivating short stories that blend familiar and fantastical elements, drawing readers into unique worlds. Each tale invites contemplation and challenges perceptions, showcasing the author's skill in crafting idiosyncratic characters. The imaginative narratives echo the depth found in his previous works, encouraging readers to unravel the complexities of each story. With a blend of intrigue and subtlety, the collection keeps readers engaged and on the edge of their seats.

Exploring the lives of crime fiction pioneers Jim Thompson, David Goodis, and Chester Himes, this collection features James Sallis's insightful biographical essays that highlight their struggles and contributions to the genre. Originally published in 1993, it offers a unique literary investigation into these enigmatic figures who reshaped crime writing yet lived in relative obscurity. Accompanied by a new introduction and a curated selection of essays and reviews on other legendary noir authors, the work showcases Sallis's poetic and sympathetic approach to literary scholarship.

A spare, sparkling tour de force about one woman's journey to becoming a cop, by master of noir James Sallis, author of Drive. Sarah Jane Pullman is a cop with a complicated past. From her small-town chicken-farming roots through her runaway adolescence, court-ordered Army stint, ill-advised marriage and years slinging scrambled eggs over greasy spoon griddles, Sarah Jane unfolds her life story, a parable about memory, atonement, and finding shape in chaos. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she is named the de facto sheriff of a rural town, investigating the mysterious disappearance of the sheriff whose shoes she’s filling—and the even more mysterious realities of the life he was hiding from his own colleagues and closest friends. This kaleidoscopic character study sparkles in every dark and bright detail—a virtuoso work by a master of both and the tender aspects of human nature.

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.

"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"-- Provided by publisher

In the woods outside the town of Willnot, the remains of several people have been discovered, unnerving the community and unsettling Dr Lamar Hale, the towns all-purpose general practitioner, surgeon and town conscience.

Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s pulp fiction and film noir. Told through a cinematic narrative that weaves back and forth through time and place, the story explores Driver's near existential moral foundations, intercut with moments of bloody violence.

Few American writers create more memorable landscapes - both natural and interior - than James Sallis. His highly praised Lew Griffin novels evoked classic New Orleans and the convoluted inner space of his black private detective. Two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin.Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes ploughing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner's cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown.