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An edition of Now and on earth (1942)

Now and on earth

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America's low-key high priest of human vice and violently wounded psyches, Jim Thompson emerged from the darkness with this his first novel. Now and On Earth is proof that Thompson has always been the bleak and compassionate teller of tawdry terror that critics and fans have come to treasure. Amid the fresh landscape and smooth illusions of wartime California a young bellboy is tipped into a world too rich in corruption. A lonely down-and-out writer tries to finish just one more book before the bottle finishes him off first. A worn out and tumbling Okie family, displaced and depressed, tries to hold on to the coarse edge of destruction at the end of the road. Thompson takes these characters and imbues them with a disgruntled grace and disillusion that perfectly echoes the dark sinking sensation that American prosperity was built on.

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Publisher
Modern Age Books
Language
English
Pages
306

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Cover of: Now and On Earth
Now and On Earth
2002, ereads.com
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Cover of: Now and on earth
Now and on earth
1994, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage crime/Black Lizard ed.
Cover of: Now and on earth
Now and on earth
1942, Modern Age Books
in English

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New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
PZ3.T37418 No, PS3539.H6733 No

The Physical Object

Pagination
3 p. l., 3-306 p.
Number of pages
306

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6435074M
LCCN
42012603
OCLC/WorldCat
6169531

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