Bluebottle

by James Sallis

Lew Griffin (5)

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As Lew Griffin leaves a New Orleans music club with an older white woman he’s just met, someone fires a shot and Lew goes down. When he comes fully to, Griffin discovers that most of a year has gone by since that night. What happened? Who was the woman? Which of them was the target? Who was the sniper? There are too many pieces missing, too few facts, and a powerful need to know why a year has been stolen from his life.Weaving Griffin’s search for identity—one of the recurring themes show more in this magnificent series—with a sensuous portrait of the people and places that define New Orleans, Sallis continues not only to unravel Griffin’s past but to map his future—and our own. Bluebottle continues the mysterious journey begun in The Long-Legged Fly and demonstrates the growing mastery of one of America’s finest crime fiction stylists. show less

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Lew Griffin abandona un club de jazz de Nueva Orleáns en compañía de una mujer a quien acaba de conocer cuando alguien dispara un rifle desde un tejado y Lew cae seriamente herido e inconsciente. Cuando por fin se recupera en el hospital, está ciego y ha perdido un año de su vida.
Ahora, con la ayuda de LaVerne, debe no sólo encontrar al francotirador, sino saber por qué y cómo esa bala le estaba destinada. ¿O no iba con él? ¿Qué papel ha jugado la elusiva rubia con quien pensaba pasar unas horas de etílico placer?
Sus pasos lo llevan al centro de una secta de supremacía blanca y, como negro que es, se convertirá en una diana móvil para demasiadas armas.

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James Sallis is a poet, music critic, biographer, and author. A lifelong student of the work of Chester Himes, he lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Bluebottle

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3569 .A462 .B54Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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