Drive - Softcover

James Sallis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842437240 ISBN 13: 9781842437247

Publisher: No Exit Press, 2012

Synopsis

'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, the story of a man who works as a stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. He drives, that's all -until he's double crossed.

Drive has been made into a multi-award nominated film starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn

'Sallis creates vivid images in very few words and his taut, pared-down prose is distinctive and powerful. The result is a small masterpiece' - Sunday Telegraph

'Crime novels seldom come as lean and mean...essential noir existentialism' - Guardian

'The perfect piece of noir fiction' - New York Times Book Review

'Sallis is a fastidious man, intelligent and widely read. There's nothing slapdash or merely strategic about his work ... peculiar and visionary' - Iain Sinclair, London Review of Books

About this title

Review:

James Sallis has written a perfect piece of noir fiction -- Marilyn Stasio, New York Times, 25th September 2005

Sallis's treatment is minimalist, stylish, and all the more evocative for it. Essential noir existentialism. -- Maxim Jakubowski, The Guardian, June 17th 2006

[Sallis s] taut, pared down prose is distinctive and powerful. The result is a small masterpiece. -- Susannah Yager, The Telegraph, June 18th 2006

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: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1842437240
• ISBN 13: 9781842437247
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192