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Moth
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
Moth
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) James Sallis
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Cover design or artwork by Elsa Mathern
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:256 | Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129 |
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Category/Genre | True Crime Crime and mystery |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781842437001
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Classifications | Dewey:813.54 |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Oldcastle Books Ltd
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Imprint |
No Exit Press
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Publication Date |
25 May 2012 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
One of the very few lights from Lew Griffin's dark and violent past has flickered out. His one-time lover, La Verne Adams is dead - and her daughter, Alouette, has vanished into a seamy, dead-end world of users and abusers...leaving behind a crack-addicted infant and a mystery. Abandoning his former career for the safety of teaching, Lew Griffin now spends his time in an old house in the garden district - determined to keep his distance from the temptations of the New Orleans night. But an inescapable obligation to an old friend is drawing the tormented Lew like a moth to a flame.
Author Biography
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 Litterature policiere.
ReviewsAn intelligent, enigmatic book . . . engrossing and disturbing * New York Times * There is danger, violence, suspense; there are characters so vivid as to be documentaries in miniature and milieus as perceived by all the senses . . . the reader has to hope the remarkable biography of Lew Griffin will continue * Los Angeles Times * Another walk on Louisiana's wild side ... even stronger than The Long-Legged Fly * Kirkus Reviews *
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