Drive - Softcover

James Sallis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842435000 ISBN 13: 9781842435007

Publisher: No Exit Press, 2011

Synopsis

Now a major film starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan.

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.

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Review:

'Fast cars, guns and babes. Just my cup of tea.' Mark Timlin, The Independent
'Sallis's treatment is minimalist, stylish, and all the more evocative for it. Essential noir existentialism.' Maxim Jakubowski, The Guardian
'A small masterpiece.' Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph
'Sallis's treatment is minimalist, stylish, and all the more evocative for it. Essential noir existentialism' --Marilyn Stasio, New York Times

A small masterpiece. --Susanna Yager, Sunday Telegraph

Fast cars, guns and babes. Just my cup of tea. --Mark Timlin, The Independent

From the Publisher:

The basis for the film directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, recent winner of Best Director for Drive at Cannes. The film is provisionallyv targeted for release in the UK September 23rd 2011.

About this edition

• Publisher: No Exit Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1842435000
• ISBN 13: 9781842435007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192