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What You Were Fighting For

James Sallis author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers

Published:7th Nov '24

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WHAT YOU WERE FIGHTING FOR is a wonderful collection of short stories that provokes the mind with its weird and intriguing tales. We catch glimpses of worlds that are similar to our own, but always different enough to make you wonder and sit at the edge of your seat. Reading this collection you often have to work out what is truly happening as Sallis weaves his imaginative portrayals of idiosyncratic characters with all the subtlety of the mind that spawned the Lew Griffin novels, Willnot, Sarah Jane, and Drive.

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

'Sallis's lean mystery and flat-voiced prose are refreshing, even startling. A lovely piece of work' Paul Skenesay, Washington Post Best Books of the Year


'The poet Sallis betrays himself on every page with an inordinate desire to capture a nuance of light, essence of cat or waver of a farewell. His prose style is witty, elliptical and heady with image and allusion; his bedrock underlying purpose is nothing less than an exploration of meaning and identity'

* LA Times *

'There is a deep poetry that lurks beneath the language, a rhythm that beautifully captures the way real people speak and think'

-- Doug Johnstone

'At this point, it may be fair and best to say James Sallis is a genre unto himself'

-- Craig McDonald

'One of the most enjoyable and most important writers working today, James Sallis has quietly revolutionised an entire genre of literature'

-- Sara

ISBN: 9781915798503

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

208 pages