Savage art
a biography of Jim Thompson
1st ed.
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Word Count
135,750 words, Guess
Page Count
543 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1121680M
- ISBN-100394584074
- OCLC Control Number31815111
- OCLC Control Numbersavageartbiograp00poli
- Library of Congress Control Number94048455
and 2 more
- LibraryThing208589
- Goodreads579059
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3539.H6733 Z83 1995
Description
Jim Thompson wrote some of the darkest, boldest, and most celebrated modern crime novels, including The Grifters and The Killer Inside Me. In Savage Art, Robert Polito provides the first comprehensive biography of this brilliant American original. Combining exhaustive research with novelistic fluency, Polito reproduces the vital textures of Thompson's world and provides the first thorough chronicle of his private and public history, tracing Thompson's dramatization of his innermost life in the "savage art" of his surprisingly personal novels. A vivid and compelling reclamation of a lost American writer, Savage Art is also a stunning addition to the literary annals of twentieth-century America.
First Sentence
When Jim Thompson was courting Alberta, he would tease her with the line that he had been born in jail.
Excerpt
When Jim Thompson was courting Alberta, he would tease her with the line that he had been born in jail.
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