World's Edge: A Mosaic Novel

Praise for World’s Edge“Sallis’ tale, or tales, depends for its power on individual insights and a thematic throughline: Apart from all those unbridled conflicts, the nightmare future it presents sounds a great deal like this morning’s headlines. A supercut of videos and aphorisms that, like all dystopias, uses prophecies of tomorrow to raise hard questions about today.”—Kirkus Reviews“A book of five linked stories, each an elegiac, quietly devastating postapocalyptic narrative … These vignettes form a constellation of perspectives that echo, refract, and deepen one another to form a mosaic that mirrors the splintered and disordered world … Intimate and mythic.”—BooklistPraise for James Sallis“The power of simplicity and the musical ring of truth as only Sallis can deliver it—as he has done bravely, consistently, for the last few decades.”—Los Angeles Times“Then there’s James Sallis—he’s right up there, one of the best. It is quite possible that speaking of Jim Sallis in the same tone as Poe and Dostoevsky is not overblowing on my part.”—Harlan Ellison“James Sallis is one of our greatest living crime writers … Try to get his words, his stories, his people out of your head. Just try.”—Laura Lippman, author of Lady in the Lake“Sallis is a sure hand—characters and prose, of course, dialogue, too, but he is also a subtle weaver of plot, with the perfect level of push. His descriptions evoke a place more real than mere realism could render, and his people speak and sweat and live and die and it’s all a great pleasure.”—Daniel Woodrell, author of Winter’s Bone“One of the most enjoyable and most important writers working today, James Sallis has quietly revolutionized an entire genre of literature.”—Sara Gran, author of Come Closer“Only America seems able to produce writers whose careers are as unconventional and whose talents are as diverse as James Sallis.”—Le Monde

James Sallis

James Sallis has published eighteen novels, including Drive, which was made into a now-iconic film, and the six-volume Lew Griffin series. He is a recipient of the Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, the Deutsche Krimipreis, and the Brigada 21 in Spain, as well as Bouchercon’s Lifetime Achievement Award. His biography of Chester Himes was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and he has been shortlisted for the Anthony, Nebula, Edgar, Shamus, and Gold Dagger Awards.