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- Herausgeber: No Exit Press
- Kategorie: Krimi
- Sprache: Englisch
At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor's bed. Eventually she escaped and, after living for eighteen months on cast-offs at the local mall, was put into the child-care system. Suing for emancipation, at age sixteen she became a legal adult. Nowadays she works as a production editor for the local public TV station, and is one of the world's good people. One evening she returns home to find a detective waiting for her. Though her records are sealed, he somehow knows her story. He asks if she can help with a young woman who, like her many years before, has been abducted and traumatized.Initially hesitant, Jenny decides to get involved, reviving buried memories and setting in motion an unexpected interchange with the president herself. As brilliantly spare and compact as are all of James Sallis's novels, Others of My Kind stands apart for its female protagonist. Set in a near future of political turmoil, it is a story of how we overcome, how we shape ourselves by what happens to us, and of how the human spirit, whatever horrors it undergoes, will not be put down.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013
At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor’s bed. Eventually she escaped and, after living for eighteen months on cast-offs at the local mall, was put into the child-care system. Suing for emancipation, at age sixteen she became a legal adult. Nowadays she works as a production editor for the local public TV station, and is one of the world’s good people.
One evening she returns home to find a detective waiting for her. Though her records are sealed, he somehow knows her story. He asks if she can help with a young woman who, like her many years before, has been abducted and traumatized. Initially hesitant, Jenny decides to get involved, reviving buried memories and setting in motion an unexpected interchange with the president herself.
As brilliantly spare and compact as are all of James Sallis’s novels, Others of My Kind stands apart for its female protagonist. Set in a near future of political turmoil, it is a story of how we overcome, how we shape ourselves by what happens to us, and of how the human spirit, whatever horrors it undergoes, will not be put down.
James Sallis has published fifteen 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.
In 2007 he received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon. In addition to Drive, the six Lew Griffin books are now in development as feature films. James teaches novel writing at Phoenix College and plays regularly with his string band, Three-Legged Dog.
He stays busy.
Praise for Others of My Kind
‘Let me start out by saying that I think James Sallis is one of America’s finest writers. In his last few efforts he has achieved both popular success with the book and film, Drive and critical success with the Turner Trilogy and last years Driven and The Killer is Dying. His new novel, which will be published in early September, is a stunning work of art. It is short, powerful and deeply affecting. I found it both hard to read, horrifying and beautiful all at the same time. The book takes place in the near future and mirrors the political problems of our own present day. Jenny Rowan, who tells us her story, is a survivor of a terrible kidnapping and a ruined childhood. She has survived and now works at a TV station where she constructs both a life and news stories from film fragments as an editor. Through her eyes and the genius of Mr Sallis we are shown a deeply humanitarian path towards a resurrection of her life and a glimpse of what America can be. The book is a crime story, a political precis and a magnificently realized journey to the heart of what we can become as a people if we want to.
While the book is lean in pages, it has a power that is perfect in its execution. The language is both simple and yet rich in its imagery and metaphor. With each new book James Sallis reaches ever higher into the pantheon of pure writing. The beauty and empathy that he radiates in his prose is breathtaking. His melding of humans and nature allow the reader to feel a wholeness with the world we live in that is rarely found in modern literature. I cannot praise this gem of a novel enough and hope that all who read this review avail themselves of a chance to experience something unique.’
Poisoned Pen
Praise for Driven
‘Fantastically economical … a savage depiction of America’ – Mark Lawson, Radio 4
‘Driven marks a rare case of mutual respect between an author and… Hollywood’ – AnOther Magazine
‘A one-sitting read that’s a mean, lean drive into darkness’ – Financial Times
‘If James Sallis’ totemic Driver seemed somehow superhuman in the original Drive, then in its sequel, things have evolved even further’ – 3:AM Magazine
‘Driven is another delicious slice of neo-noir crime served razor-sharp by James Sallis’ – Alternative Magazine Online
Praise for Drive
‘Crime novels seldom come as lean and mean as this subtle tale... James Sallis has always been one of America’s most intellectual mystery authors, but this sparse evocation of hardboiled angst in the blazing sun, in which destinies criss-cross with ferocious results, is a minor masterpiece ...Sallis’s treatment is minimalist, stylish, and all the more evocative for it. Essential noir existentialism’ – Maxim Jakubowski, Guardian
‘a small masterpiece’ – Sunday Telegraph
‘Full throttle getaway to the underworld’ – Independent
‘James Sallis has written a perfect piece of noir fiction’ – New York Times
‘The character Driver holds a place in American literature’ – Dazed Digital
Praise for James Sallis
‘Sallis is an unsung genius of crime writing’ – Independent on Sunday
‘James Sallis is a superb writer’ – Times
‘James Sallis - he’s right up there, one of the best of the best... Sallis, also a poet, is capable of smart phrasing and moments of elegiac energy’ – Ian Rankin, Guardian
‘[A] master of America noir...Sallis creates vivid images in very few words and his taut, pared down prose is distinctive and powerful’ – Sunday Telegraph
‘Sallis’s spare, concrete prose achieves the level of poetry’ – Telegraph
‘Sallis is a wonderful writer, dark, lyrical and compelling’ – Spectator
‘Sallis is a fastidious man, intelligent and widely read. There’s nothing slapdash or merely strategic about his work’ – London Review of Books
‘Classic American crime of the highest order’ – Time Out
‘Unlike those pretenders who play in dark alleys and think they’re tough, James Sallis writes from an authentic noir sensibility, a state of mind that hovers between amoral indifference and profound existential despair’ – New York Times
‘carefully crafted, restrained and eloquent’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘James Sallis is without doubt the most underrated novelist currently working in America’ – Catholic Herald
‘I’m brought back, yet again, to my conviction that the best American writers are hiding out like CIA sleepers, long forgotten fugitives from a discontinued campaign’ – Iain Sinclair, London Review of Books
‘The leading light in neo-noir existentialism’ – Mirror
Sallis’ wonderfully varied crime fiction is generating all kinds of overdue interest... existentialist, black top noir’ – Metro
‘An artist and a radical’ – Book Geeks
SELECTED WORKS BY JAMES SALLIS
Novels Published by No Exit Press
The Long-Legged Fly – Lew Griffin Book One, 1992
Moth – Lew Griffin Book Two, 1993
Black Hornet – Lew Griffin Book Three, 1994
Death Will Have Your Eyes, 1997
Eye of the Cricket – Lew Griffin Book Four, 1997
Bluebottle – Lew Griffin Book Five, 1998
Ghost of a Flea – Lew Griffin Book Six, 2001
Cypress Grove – Turner Trilogy Book One, 2003
Drive, 2005
Cripple Creek – Turner Trilogy Book Two, 2006
Salt River – Turner Trilogy Book Three, 2007
The Killer Is Dying, 2011
Driven, 2012
Others of My Kind 2013
Other Novels
Renderings What You Have Left: The Turner Trilogy
Stories
A Few Last Words Limits of the Sensible World Time’s Hammers: Collected Stories A City Equal to my Desire
Poems
Sorrow’s Kitchen My Tongue In Other Cheeks: Selected Translations Rain’s Eagerness
As Editor
Ash of Stars: On the Writing of Samuel R. Delany Jazz Guitars The Guitar In Jazz
Other
The Guitar Players Difficult Lives Saint Glinglin by Raymond Queneau (translator) Chester Himes: A Life A James Sallis Reader
To the memory of my mother, who knew about secrets and hard lives
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Other Books Extracts
Copyright
OTHERS OF MY KIND
