Jim Lewis, Author Crown Publishers $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-609-60109-9
""I was 27 years old and I had lost my way,"" confesses Caroline Harrison, the seductive, shape-shifting narrator of Lewis's second novel (after Sister), minutes before totaling her car outside the remote city of Sugartown, Tex. Thus begins a...
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Jim Lewis, Author Graywolf Press $20 (205p) ISBN 978-1-55597-178-6
Haunting and poetic, this remarkable first novel of teenage love and alienation reimagines The Tempest from Caliban's point of view. Narrator Wilson, a 17-year-old newly arrived from Nebraska in an unnamed Louisiana city, has been an outsider all...
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Jim Lewis, Author, Jack Pierson, Illustrator, Jack Pierson, With Artspace Books $15 (52p) ISBN 978-0-9631095-2-1
Attempting to combine color photos and story in a fashion that filters the road literature of Kerouac through the sensibilities of Jim Jarmusch and Generation X, Pierson and Lewis ( Sister ) have instead produced a helter-skelter non sequitur, a...
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Jim Lewis, Author . Knopf $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-375-41417-6
Every act is fraught with significance in this intermittently powerful but overwrought novel, set between 1950s Tennessee and present-day New York. Like an American passion play, Lewis's story is one of sin and redemption, told in flowing,...
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Jim Lewis. West Virginia Univ, $22.99 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-949199-96-3
Lewis (The King Is Dead) maps the meanderings of four New Yorkers in this rich if diffuse series of vignettes. In “The New Love,” a drifter named Dominic walks with an older stranger and reflects on the city’s haunting permanence (“No one dies in...
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