Eye of the Cricket (Lew Griffin) - Softcover

Sallis, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802775810 ISBN 13: 9780802775818

Publisher: Walker & Co, 2000

Synopsis

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men.

About this title

Review:

"Classic American crime of the highest order." -- Time Out

"James Sallis is a superb writer" -- The Times

"One of the most intriguing, disturbing, literate, intelligent and powerful novels I've read in years, and Lew Griffin is one of the most flat-out human detectives since Marlowe. There's enough story here for three good novels, but Sallis crafts them into one truly fine one - he's a ligitimate contender in the Heavyweight Division. Make that Superheavyweight." -- David Bradley

From the Back Cover:

Lew Griffin is a survivor, a black man in New Orleans, a detective, a teacher, a writer. And he is a man subject to all of the frailties to which we are heir. Having spent years finding others, he has lost his son...and himself in the process. Now a derelict has appeared in a New Orleans hospital claiming to be Lewis Griffin and displaying a copy of one of Lew's novels. It is the beginning of a quest that will take Griffin into his own past while he tries to deal in the present with a search for three missing young men. Somewhere in the underbelly of Crescent City, there are answers and more questions; there are threats and the promise of salvation; and there is a dangerous descent into the alcoholic haze that marked Griffin's younger days as well as the possibility of rising from it, redeemed.

Lew Griffin's investigation is the hero's journey, mythic and strengthening and thoroughly satisfying.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker & Co
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0802775810
• ISBN 13: 9780802775818
• Binding: Paperback