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Drive

Doing movie stunt driving by day and driving for criminals at night, a man is double-crossed by some former partners and decides to take violent means to protect himself and to seek revenge.

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  • "Doing movie stunt driving by day and driving for criminals at night, a man is double-crossed by some former partners and decides to take violent means to protect himself and to seek revenge."@en
  • ""Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt." -- inside cover."
  • "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."@en
  • "Driver, a man who makes a living doing stunt driving for films during the day and by driving for criminals at night, finds himself caught in the middle when he is double-crossed by some former partners and is forced to take violent means to protect himself and to seek revenge on his betrayers."
  • "Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate nearby, the sound of someone weeping in the next room'. Thus begins Drive, a new novella by one of the nation's most respected and honored writers of noir fiction. Set mostly in Arizona and L.A., the story is, according to Sallis, ''about a guy who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. In classic noir fashion, he is double-crossed and, though before he has never participated in the violence ('I drive. That's all.'), he goes after the ones who doublecrossed and tried to kill him.'"@en
  • "'I drive. That's what I do. All I do'. Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt."@en
  • "I drive. That's what I do. All I do." So declares the enigmatic Driver in this masterfully convoluted neo-noir, which ranges from the dive bars and flyblown motels of Los Angeles to seedy strip malls dotting the Arizona desert. A stunt driver for movies, Driver finds more excitement as a wheelman during robberies, but when a heist goes sour, a contract is put on his head and his survival skills burn up the pavement."@en
  • ""Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt."--Inside cover."@en
  • "'I drive. That's what I do. All I do.' Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. Originally published: Scottsdale, Ariz.: Poisoned Pen, 2005; Harpend."@en
  • "I drive. That's what I do. All I do.''Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there'd be no doubt. But for now Driver is, as they say, in the moment. And the moment includes this blood lapping toward him, the pressure of dawn's late light at windows and door, traffic sounds from the interstate nearby, the sound of someone weeping in the next room ... 'Thus begins Drive, by James Sallis. Set mostly in Arizona and LA."@en
  • "Driver is overdag stuntcoureur in films en 's nachts is hij verwikkeld in louche zaakjes."
  • "Driver ist kein Verbrecher. Jedenfalls nicht im engeren Sinne. Er ist nur der beste Stuntfahrer, den man in Hollywood kriegen kann. Und manchmal fährt er bei Raubüberfällen den Fluchtwagen, obwohl ihn das gar nicht so richtig interessiert. Genauso wenig wie die Hollywoodfilme. Eigentlich will er nur fahren. Aber dann läuft einer dieser Überfälle schief, und Driver findet sich in einem schäbigen Motel in Arizona wieder, mit mehreren Leichen im Zimmer und einer Tasche voller Geldscheine. Eigentlich sollte auch er tot sein, denn der Raubüberfall war eine abgekartete Sache ... "Driver" von James Sallis ist ein literarischer Glücksfall: ein fesselnder, atmosphärisch dichter und zugleich virtuos erzählter Kriminalroman, eine Hommage an den klassischen Roman noir, die fast beiläufig zu grosser Literatur wird. James Sallis wurde 1944 in Arkansas geboren und verbrachte dort seine Kindheit. Er studierte Literaturwissenschaften in New Orleans und arbeitete anschliessend als Lektor und Drehbuchautor. Er übersetzte Raymond Queneau und Puschkin ins Englische und veröffentlichte eine Biografie von Chester Himes. Bekannt wurde er mit einer Romanreihe um den farbigen Privatdetektiv Lew Griffin. Für seinen Roman "Driver" wurde er 2008 mit dem Deutschen Krimi Preis ausgezeichnet. James Sallis lebt in Phoenix, Arizona."

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  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Noir fiction"
  • "Noir fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Crime & mystery"@en
  • "Krimis, Thriller, Spionage"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Driver : Roman"
  • "Driver Roman"
  • "Drive"@es
  • "Drive"@it
  • "Drive"@en
  • "Drive"
  • "Drive"@pl
  • "Vožnja"
  • "Drive : a novel"
  • "Drive : a novel"@en
  • "Driver"

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