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Chargement... Potato Treepar James Sallis
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Fiction. Short Stores. POTATO TREES's 41 stories, with their vivid imagery, poetic language and heart-wrenching emotions, are Sallis at his edgiest, most indefinable best. James Sallis is best-known for his six-volume Lew Griffin cycle, his authoritative biography of Chester Himes, the novel DRIVE which the New York Times called "a perfect noir novel", and for his criticism of literary, foreign-language and genre writing. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I really wanted to like this, as Sallis can be a fine writer. If one reads these pieces as poetry, most of them are more effective. Some of the most entertaining ones are collections of paragraphs of Sallis's random, quirky thoughts, shot through with a macabre imagination. The end result, however, even when reading these over a period of several months, is one of incompleteness - in fact, I share much of Sallis's outlook as expressed in these stories, so perhaps I don't need it fictionalized and thrown back at me. I'm looking for a little more narrative, which is what you get with Sallis's noir classic, Drive, for instance. Like many of these pieces, it also has a narrative that seems to come out of a fog, but the duel between hunter and hunted at the center of it provides the glue that holds it together so you can enjoy Sallis's skill as a writer. ( )