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.
Haunting . . . Sallis writes poetic rings around the subject
*New York Times*
Sallis is a gifted polymath: poet, biographer, translator,
essayist, musician and prolific (if criminally neglected) novelist.
His Turner books are little gems, with their sharp descriptions and
melancholy reflections
*Seattle Times*
As we come to expect from Sallis, Salt River is filled with
insight, redemption, and tantalizing passages
*Crime Time*
A superior piece of literary crime fiction
*View from the Blue House*
sublime third novel to feature the philosophical John Turner
*Publishers Weekly*
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