Jean-Claude Izzo (All reviews)
- Feb 5 2021
Marseille: a virtual tour through books, film, food and music
— The Guardian - Feb 5 2021
Marseille: a virtual tour through books, film, food and music
— The Guardian - Jul 2 2018
“The holy grail of noir fiction”
— NB Magazine - Jul 2 2018
Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo
— Nudge Book - Jun 29 2018
★ Star Pick
— Times Crime Club - Aug 10 2016
Classic policier
— Poison pen - Jun 1 2016
Total Chaos by Jean-Claude Izzo (Review)
— Woodcock - May 25 2016
Reading Marseilles !
— Culthurethèque - Jan 25 2016
Mid-summer reading report back
— Pulp Curry - Nov 13 2015
Mediterranean Noir-Nouveau
— Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine - Nov 13 2015
Mediterranean Noir-Nouveau
— Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine - Nov 13 2015
Mediterranean Noir-Nouveau
— Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine - Jul 31 2015
"This evocative and passionate collection of essays from the French crime writer is a paean to the life, cities and food of the Mediterranean."
— Today’s Zaman - May 26 2013
Woody Haut's Blog: "These are all lyrical pieces that allow Izzo to speak from the heart about the state of his beloved city..." - May 10 2013
The Guardian: "This evocative new collection of essays...is a paean to the life, cities and food of the Mediterranean." - Apr 12 2013
The Paris Review: "[Izzo] distill[s] a part of the world into just a few pages." - Apr 3 2013
The Complete Review: "A fine little love-letter to Marseilles and the Mediterranean region around it." - Oct 1 2008
Booklist: "a likely hit not just with fans of noir (including Izzo’s own Marseilles trilogy) but also with devotees of Charles Bukowski, Hubert Selby Jr., and other great modern tragedians." - Oct 1 2008
Mostly Fiction: "A Sun for the Dying is Izzo’s finest novel, bitter, bleak and perfect, and Izzo fans will not be disappointed." - Sep 12 2008
Daily Telegraph: "A psychologically intense, evocative indictment of social cruelty." - Sep 8 2008
Shelf Awareness: "why was I sobbing as I closed this book? Because Izzo's vision of life, though unspeakably sad, rings boldly honest." - Jul 1 2008
Kirkus Reviews: "Difficult but rewarding reading that offers an unflinching look at a social problem" - Jun 19 2008
The Guardian: Music, life, literature, and Jean-Claude Izzo...from the Guardian Unlimited Blog - Apr 30 2008
Publishers Weekly: "Izzo (1945–2000) returns to Marseille (setting of Total Chaos and other of his books) with a bleak, affecting tale about a man on the skids, despairing of love's ability to heal...Izzo's last novel proves riveting and grim." - Dec 2 2007
Boston Globe: "A tale of the three men's lives and loves...Izzo's novel is something of a palimpsest. The travels of the Romans, and of the Greeks before them, have left their traces over which the lives of his characters are now etched." - Oct 1 2007
Guardian Unlimited: "Music, it turns out, is vital to Izzo's unusual take on France's troubled ethnic divisions. Izzo's prose probes the vicious cycle of immigration, unemployment, poverty, crime and racism that afflict contemporary France." - Jun 26 2007
Kirkus Reviews: "The author masterfully depicts his native Marseilles’ sensuous diversity, from down-at-the-heels cafés to the increasingly ritzy and snobbish seaside."