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Author(s): Jim Thompson
Reissue of 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek) published on the centenary of Jim Thompson's birth.
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Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office for embezzlement; and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s, Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses of the 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory).
General Fields
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- : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
- : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- : 01 August 2006
- : 01 June 2006
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jim Thompson
- : Paperback