Praise for UNDER THE SKIN
His unflinching prose drives a stake through fainter hearts, but Blake explores dark borderlands
of the human spirit. He has rightfully been hailed as one of the most original writers in America
today and is certainly one of the bravest. UNDER THE SKIN and his other previous stories all have
the seductive fascination of a beautiful song scrawled in blood.
- St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Blake’s previous legends of anti-heroes fascinated readers, and his latest will be no exception….
This is a tough and tender story of lawlessness and retribution, exposing the human frailties of the
hardest criminals. Blake is a great storyteller.
- Library Journal, starred review
UNDER THE SKIN is brutal and beautiful. Blake’s savage crime saga isn’t driven only by the body
count nor its cold-blooded cruelty. What makes this book--and Blake’s others--truly horrific are
passages of pure poetry and the haunting beauty of Blake’s writing.
- Denver Post
Praise for James Carlos Blake
Blake remains a poet of the damned who writes like an angel.
-Donald Newlove, Kirkus Reviews
Blake writes with a command of the language and a deft ear for dialogue that few novelists possess … mixing violence with passion, the hardnose with the sensitive… No one out there does this better.
-Tom Walker, Denver Post
Blake writes with a fearless precision and a ruthless sensibility… gritty, bare-knuckled fiction, blazing with an extraordinary kind of violence.
-Publishers Weekly
One of the best prose stylists writing in America today.
-Austin American-Statesman
A writer beyond comparison … a unique chronicler of hard lives in harder times…
-Rocky Mountain News
Nobody writes about blood and guts better than James Carlos Blake. He knows in his bones that violence is at the heart of our American history.
-Washington Post Book World
A master at detailing the life of the desperado.
-Booklist
James Carlos Blake is of the Cormac McCarthy/Sam Peckinpah school of storytelling: Make it bloody as hell, but make it beautiful… a master of lyric description.
-Dallas Morning News
One of the best and most original writers in America today.
-Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
One of today’s best fiction writers.
-Tucson Weekly
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