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Jim Christy Reads Scalawags
On
May 9th, Jim Christy, author of Scalawags and Nine O'Clock Guns,
will be appearing at the Pacific Festival of the Book in Victoria. Jim Christy
is a writer, artist and tireless traveller. The author of twenty books, including
poetry, short stories, novels, travel and biography, Christy has been praised
by writers as diverse as Charles Bukowski and Sparkle Hayter. His travels have
taken him from the Yukon to the Amazon, Greenland to Cambodia. He has covered
wars and exhibited his art internationally. Raised in inner-city Philadelphia,
he moved to Toronto when he was twenty-three years old and became a Canadian
citizen at the first opportunity. A resident of British Columbia’s Sunshine
Coast for many years, he currently resides in Toronto.In Scalawags: Rogues, Roustabouts,Wags & Scamps, new from Anvil Press, you will encounter gamblers and adventurers, con men and con women, rodomontades and ragamuffins, outright fools and outrageous liars. Scalawags, the lot of them. The wild, amazing—almost unbelievable—lives of those who dared to really live.
In Nine O’Clock Gun, recently published by Ekstasis Editions, Gene Castle, hard-boiled Private Eye is back in his room at the faded Rose Hotel, back at his table at Ramona’s Cafe, but the woman
in his life has taken her seamed silk stockings and walked. Vancouver is as dangerous as ever, though, and Castle’s just the man to solve the string of murders striking a little too close to home.Christy’s feel for the language of the street and the spirit of the times sets the stage for crime fiction that is intelligent and absorbing.
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