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Drive

Drive

Author(s): James Sallis

Location(s): Arizona, Los Angeles

Genre(s): Thriller

Era(s): Modern

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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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The film initially brought me to the book. Driver drives for a living, a character without character, but an ease with violence. USA noir, it works well as a read, lots of action and...

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